Remain Anonymous: yes
Field Investigation Requested: yes
Date of Sighting: 2/28/14
Time of Sighting: 6:30pm
Duration of Event: 4hours
Location of UFO: Walton, NY
Shape of Object: Other (Explain Below)
UFO Report: I was outside swinging when I saw the UFOs some were big and small some flew fast some flew slow they had red orange green lights 🙂 I saw 20+ they were far away
Evidence Submitted: Sketch
Case Disposition: Case Assigned to Investigator on 04 Mar 2014
Remain Anonymous: Yes
Field Investigation Requested: No
Date of Sighting: 06/06/2013
Time of Sighting: 1-3am
Duration of Event: 2-3 minutes
Location of UFO: 43.852921, -78.995073
Shape of Object: Orb
UFO Report: 6 orbs. Time and date not accurate. 2013 is accurate. GPS accurate. They were floating west to east. Caught three on video. I never really thought about uploading it until now. Original video remains on my phone. If you could reply to me in an email about any thoughts on this that would be great. You can also leave some words in the comment section of this uTube video.
Evidence Submitted: Authenticity of video cannot be confirmed
Case Disposition: Information Only
14-021 still image
Remain Anonymous: No
Field Investigation Requested: Yes
Date of Sighting: October 13, 2010
Time of Sighting: 2pm
Duration of Event: Unknown
Location of UFO: New York, NY
Shape of Object: Other
UFO Report: The sighting started at around 9am on October 13, 2010, the sky was sunny, clear no clouds in the sky. My wife was walking our children to school and as she crossed 23rd Street and 8th Avenue in Chelsea she noticed a few people standing at the corner staring and pointing into the sky. At around 2 pm she went back to pick the kids up from school and noticed a larger crowd staring and pointing in the sky saying look at the UFOs. She then called me and told me what was happening and I ran home and got my video camera and went down to 23rd Street and 8th Avenue. When I got there there was a large crowd around 40-60 people standing around, also there were news trucks from ABC news 7 and NY1 news. What i saw was a large object that was stationary and fading in and out and there were multiple shiny orb shaped objects that were flying by also fading in and out. I was unable to capture the objects on video at 23rd Street and 8th Avenue, so I started to walk towards 24th street and as I looked north east (towards the Empire State Building) i noticed a very bright silver orb and it was flying low it was bobbing up and down and wobbling. It stopped for a few seconds and hovered then shot straight up. I was able to take a video for a few seconds. I did not think i got anything but when i slowed it down you can see the orb flying then when i zoom in a little you can see that the object is triangle shaped. During the sighting there were people saying that they saw a military jet fly over at Hi altitude . Also at around 6:30pm all planes were diverted in the area due to a gas leak at the Regional Air traffic control center in Westbury , New York that controls the 3 major airports Newark Liberty, LaQuardia and John F. Kennedy Airport was closed for hour
Evidence Submitted: Photo and video
Case Disposition: Closed. Read our Report of Investigation.
Remain Anonymous: No
Field Investigation Requested: Yes
Date of Sighting: Unknown
Time of Sighting: Varied
Duration of Event: Unknown
Location of UFO: Unknown
Shape of Object: Other
UFO Report: Witness contacted API regarding an alleged alien abduction.
Evidence Submitted: None
Case Disposition: Assigned
Remain Anonymous: No
Field Investigation Requested: Yes
Date of Sighting: 01/27/2014
Time of Sighting: 9:25 pm EST
Duration of Event: 3-4 minutes
Location of UFO: Vernon New Jersey
Shape of Object: Orb
UFO Report: I was driving home from Matamoras PA coming over Highpoint Mountain on route 23 when I got the crest of the mountain you can look out and see the valley and then the mountains and ski slopes in Vernon on the other side. High above the ski slopes was a big orange/reddish ball that just hovered there. There was no movement which made me believe it was a light at the ski slopes. Then I realized it was way too large and way too high in the sky to be a light from the ski slopes. I kept watching it as I drove down the mountain and it still didn’t move and it appeared to get bigger. I also realized that it it was an airplane or helicopter because it didn’t have traditional running lights plus it was much larger. I decided to try to get a photo of it but needed to fins a safe place to pull off the road. When I finally parked and tried to get a photo, my iPhone could not get a focus on it because the sky was too dark. All of a sudden the light just disappeared but it never moved. There was no movement at all it just disappeared as if someone just turned the lights off. I can’t say it is extraterrestrial at all, the only thing I can say is that it was a strange light that I just can’t explain. I’m just curious as to if anyone else saw it and may have a logical answer for it.
Evidence Submitted: None
Case Disposition: Information Only
Remain Anonymous: No
Field Investigation Requested: Yes
Date of Sighting: Unknown
Time of Sighting: Unknown
Duration of Event: Unknown
Location of UFO: New York, NY
Shape of Object: Strange Craft
UFO Report: Strange aircraft from the my 52nd floor apartment facing the Hudson River in NYC it’s shape was unlike a helicopter or airplane which is what drew my attention. it was traveling in a normal horizontal path. Not sure if it was coincidental or related but an F-15 or F/16 appeared about a minute after.
Evidence Submitted: 2 photos
Case Disposition: Likely Misidentified Osprey Aircraft
The Witness photographed an unusual aircraft flying over NYC, followed by a jet close behind. Subsequent research lead Investigator to determine the object matched closely the length and appearance of a V-22 Osprey aircraft.
Remain Anonymous: No
Field Investigation Requested: Yes
Date of Sighting: Unknown
Time of Sighting: Unknown
Duration of Event: Unknown
Location of UFO: Unknown
Shape of Object: Lights
UFO Report: Witness sent API several photos regarding strange lights in the sky.
Evidence Submitted: 3 photos
Case Disposition: Known Celestial Object
The Witness’s husband in this case supplied footage of first, a waning Gibbous moon out of focus, and then Venus as video evidence of the object they have been seeing around their area for some months now. Although they MAY have actually been seeing a genuine anomalous object, no evidence of this was submitted. What evidence WAS
submitted was clearly known celestial objects.
Remain Anonymous: No
Field Investigation Requested: Yes
Date of Sighting: 25/1/2014
Time of Sighting: 0:10
Duration of Event: 90 seconds
Location of UFO: Mairena del Aljarafe, Seville, Spain. In a nearby road from Almensilla to Palomares.
Shape of Object: Cigar
UFO Report: I was driving to find the way out from Mairena del Aljarafe, in Seville. I was lost in a road inside the town but near to a forest. I was in an upside road and spotted a horizontally little cigar, with a green light in the left side and a red light in the right side. The red light was always lighting and the green light switched off every time the object moved. When I spotted it, it was completely static in the silent sky. I stopped my car and switched off the motor trying to hear the sound of the object, but was completely silent. Sometimes it moved to right or left, and when it occurred the green light dissappears. The movement of the object was uniformly accelerated and the deceleration occurs just in the middle of the movement to finally stop again perfectly in the sky. I wasn’t affraid and inside of me I was desiring to contact in first person with the ship. 90 seconds before the sighting the object went slowly down to the ground only with the red light lighting and when it wasn’t visible a car appeared in the other side of the road. I tried to find it again but it wasn’t possible. The ship wasn’t there. I think no one spotted it, just me.
Evidence Submitted: None
Case Disposition: Information Only
Overall, this year’s MUFON conferences in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia were well organized and better than expected. John Ventre, who is the MUFON State Director for Pennsylvania, invited a wide-range of speakers who managed to successfully entertained both ends of the UFO cult spectrum: believers to skeptics. In the end, there is not much I can report about the conferences other than they were well organized, and more importantly, they were not inundated with the new-age claptrap that have swamped most UFO conference for 2013 (i.e., pseudo-psychics, closed-room forums for abductees, and, or course, alleged TOP SECRET UFO programs leaked at deathbed confessions).
Nevertheless, during these conferences, I did notice several issues that continue to swamp Ufology: Paranoia, lens flares, and pareidolia:
Paranoia: Several of alleged “contactees and abductees” I spoke with claimed they were victims of US government surveillance, harassment, and illegal wiretapping. One alleged contactee claimed he was recently approached by a “black” branch of the National Security Agency in an effort to prepare him, the contactee, for the upcoming gradual release of the top secret exchange program between Serpo, a planet of Zeta Reticuli, and extraterrestrials. Obviously, as former intelligence officer myself, I asked the contactee to elaborate more regarding this meeting with the NSA and he stressed that the NSA threatened him not to disclose the details about the meeting because we, the population, “we not ready”. After spending over 20 years in the intelligence community, and working on several projects with the NSA myself, I am pretty certain that the NSA has no “black” branch focusing on extraterrestrial activities. The NSA, for the most part, has a Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Cyber Security mission in support of national security. Additionally, I spoke with other alleged abductees who claimed the Federal Bureau of Investigation harassed them regarding their alien abductions and that the FBI recently “framed” them on various bogus indictments (non-ET related). Of course, neither of these “victims of US Government harassment” could provide proof to substantiate their claims.
MIB Image courtesy of redicecreations.com
Pareidolia and Lens Flares: Additionally, during both conferences, I was approached by at least 20 different attendees who claimed to have 100% physical proof of UFOs (I want to point out that yes the photos were nonetheless UFOs to each of these attendees). After careful examination, however, I concluded all of the photos were nothing more than a combination of lens flares, pareidolia and natural phenomena. It is in the best interest of upcoming UFO conferences, therefore, that a type of “photo analysis booth” is set up in an effort to review photos of alleged UFOs and, more importantly, to educate the attendees regarding their photos.
What is a Report of Investigation?
The ROI is a document that is meant to provide all the information on a case that we are able find, and checklist indicating what avenues of investigation we explored (or did not explore). The strongest hypotheses for explanation of the sighting are enumerated and their strengths and weaknesses discussed. For researchers, the ROI is the best source for data about each case.
Here is an example of an ROI for case: 13-093-1
Why aren’t all ROIs available on the API website?
Before 2018, in an effort to save space on the server, we did not publish ROIs on the API website. However, we now publish .pdf files of ROIs after they have been redacted of witness personal information. ROIs from before 2018 may be also be published for the more interesting cases.
Are ROIs provided upon request?
Yes! All ROIs, when the investigation is complete, are available upon request. We note, however, that witness personal information is not provided. If you are a responsible investigator with whom we have a written agreement on investigational ethics, and you wish to interview the witness, we will, in most circumstance, ask their permission to pass the full ROI on to you.