NUFORC UFO Sighting 182552

Occurred: 2024-08-01 03:40 Local
Reported: 2024-08-08 11:24 Pacific
Duration: About 10 minutes
No of observers: 2 - Pilot

Location: Fort Edward, NY, USA
Location details: Outside of Fort Edward near farmland

Shape: Cigar
Color: Green
Estimated Size: About the size of a 747
Viewed From: Aircraft
Direction from Viewer: East then north
Angle of Elevation: 27
Closest Distance: 200 to 300 ft
Estimated Speed: Anywhere from 800 to 1000 mph I would say
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Bright green cigar shaped craft flies past our plane

I am a pilot I want to keep myself anonymous because my co-pilot tried to report this and got grounded. It was around 3:40 to 4:00 a.m. and we were flying into a local airport we were dropping off a couple of people who were coming back from basic training in the military. We were over the Fort Edward area over some farmland when my co-pilot pointed toward the mountains and said what is that green thing? I looked over and realized that it was just a solid green light that appeared to just hover. I was thinking maybe it was some sort of tower on the mountain and told my co-pilot what I thought as we continued to fly he ended up pointing again and saying it moved. I looked over and it was closer probably within about 500 ft of us and it appeared to be flying toward us, in my mind I was thinking maybe it was a private plane, that may be possibly somebody had put wrong lights on it. I told my co-pilot to turn the cockpit lights on and off hoping that maybe we would get some sort of response. When he did that the light got brighter and then blinked out. This has been the course of about 5 minutes and now I was kind of suspicious because planes don't just shut their outside lights off in the middle of the night.

Within about 30 seconds I ended up being the one to see it this time probably about a mile away from us it had somehow gone from about 500 ft to our right side to about a mile away over another mountain, within the span of 30 seconds. This time I could view it from the side and I realized that the light was in the shape of a cigar, I would say more like a cigarette because of the length. I said do we report this and my co-pilot just stayed silent staring out the window. It didn't appear to be moving relative to the lights on the ground. It then made a slow turn to where it was pointing in our direction again and just looking like a ball of light and then flew past us very fast. When it went over the cockpit it couldn't have been more than 200 to 300 ft above us and I could see that it appeared to have rows of windows in the front, no wings whatsoever and I realized that the green light we're coming from these bars on the side running the length of this object. That was all I could really see within the quick glance. My estimate was it went about a mile away from us to flying right over us in the span of a couple of seconds.

My co-pilot open the door to see if anybody else was awake or saw it and everybody in the back was asleep so he came back and said I'm reporting it. I said okay we can do that and I got on the radio and asked if there was any other planes or aircraft in my vicinity and was told no. The controller asked me if I had seen something and I said yes and he asked me to switch frequencies which doesn't often happen. I switched and he said we had somebody about five to six miles away from you earlier say that they saw a row of green lights is that what you saw. I said no it was object it appeared to be an aircraft with no wings it did have a two green bars of lights and they were so bright that it lit the whole object up. he then said switch back to regular frequency and begin your landing approach.

When we landed we were questioned by a man I'm not sure who he was but he was wearing a nice blue suit and they took us to a small room and asked us what we saw and to draw it out. he asked if I wanted to file a formal report and I said no and left my co-pilot however did want to file one and ended up grounded the next day.

I live in upstate New York but not this area but I do have a family member who lives out towards the area where we saw this object. I called him up and we were talking and he said that people see stuff like that over the farmland and into the mountains going toward Vermont all the time. He told me that him his wife and other people in the area are of the belief that these lights and things that they see are military in nature. I tend to lean on that as well. I figure what we saw could have been a drone of some sort but it was very large I would estimate that it was at least two times the size of our plane which would make it about the size of a 747. It had no noise that we could hear from the cockpit I know that probably doesn't help because you can't really hear much outside of a cockpit, the bars of light on both sides almost reminded me of something that I saw when I was in the military that they had put on helicopters to signal from a distance.

My thinking was that this was a large UAV that they were possibly using to signal Jets or something in the area. My co-pilot is of different thinking and I believe that could be the reason he was grounded. He seems to believe that it was something not from here. I believe that some people may have seen this as some farmers do tend to wake up very early but according to my great uncle who is the family member who lives almost in the exact area over which this sighting took place it's almost a common theme out there and nobody really reports it. From what I was able to deduce they believe it is military because they see military helicopters and planes fly over on occasion during the day. It is mountainous area very hilly not flat and my great-uncle says it almost looks like a European country in this area. He even had a farmer who lives down the road from him who had to kick a bunch of men with flashlights off of his property about 2 months ago and they were wearing military fatigues. So it is my belief that this was something military and that maybe they're using the area for training. I know there is a national guard area close to where this took place. And I do know of one or two areas in the general vicinity that aren't official but where military personnel take off in helicopters. My thinking was that maybe this was a UAV of some sort that they were using almost as a North star in a sense that's the only thing I can really think of.

Sorry for rambling on but my mind is absolutely blown by whatever it was and the only thing that I can think rationally is military. If I'm being irrational and a conspiracy theorist I guess I could say it was extraterrestrial but I just don't buy that. Like I say and I want to reiterate that I do believe this was some sort of military operation and I say that just in case somebody connected to my company or to the local airport finds this report and tries to have me grounded.

Posted 2024-08-22