Hudson Valley sightings (1983–84)

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🗓️ Event · 8 min readHudson Valley sightingsEncyclopedia article, with sourcesFrom 1982 to the mid-1990s, thousands of people in New York and Connecticut reported seeing a huge, slow-moving, silent V-shaped craft outlined in bright lights. State police and other investigators traced many of these sightings to private pilots flying ligh…

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1. Tuesday 24 July 1984 · 1 report

2. UFO in my hometown Brewster, NY, July 24th 1984 📍 Brewster, New York, United States · 🎥

3. Thursday 6 August 1992 · 1 report

4. Dr Ellen Crystall's video of a UFO she captured over Pine Bush, New York in 1992 21:41 · 📍 Pine Bush, New York, United States · Boomerang · 🎥 Time \[9:41pm 6/4/1993\] Locarion (Pine Bush, New York) On August 6th 1992 at 9:41pm, Dr Ellen Crystall managed to capture rhis UFO over the fields of Pine Bush, New Jer…

5. Thursday 17 March 2011 · 1 report

6. My UFO Sighting (Ai Art is approximation) 16:30 · 📍 Hudson Valley, New York, United States · Chevron Time: March 17th 2011 approximately 4:30pm Location: Hudson Valley, New York In March of 2011, I was traveling down some back roads through the Hudson Valley in New York…

7. Sunday 19 May 2019 · 1 report

8. Black boomerang shaped UFO Place not given · Boomerang · 🎥

9. Thursday 28 January 2021 · 1 report

10. HUDSON VALLEY, NY 1.20.21 📍 Hudson Valley, New York, United States · 🎥

11. Wednesday 17 July 2024 · 1 report

12. Just saw these tonight. Any ideas? Place not given · Boomerang I was driving down the highway and these orange orbs appeared in the sky to my front right just behind the tree line. I noticed because the lights shined so brightly thr…

13. Tuesday 22 October 2024 · 1 report

14. Langley lights video and Hudson valley UFO wave event - The same thing? 📍 Hudson Valley, New York, United States · Light So if you check the story about Hudson wave UFO event in the 80's(click (https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/history/article/ufo-sightings-westchester-pine-bush-myst…

15. Friday 13 December 2024 · 1 report

16. Slightly Edited video of boomerang over NYC 12/13/24 📍 New York City, New York, USA · Boomerang · 🎥 Original post here https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/9qiCnp2SSZ I don't have the original video so couldn't really avoid artefacts from decompression but i was able to adj…

17. Saturday 14 December 2024 · 1 report

18. Photos of boomerang UFO I saw 3 years ago 📍 Colorado, United States · Boomerang Submission statement: I was out with my grandpa setting up a telescope when we looked up and saw this boomerang shaped craft flying completely silently overhead. It was …

19. Saturday 28 December 2024 · 1 report

20. What is it? Spotted in Colorado [video] 📍 Colorado, United States · Boomerang · 🎥 Maybe a boomerang? It was silent and huge. Spotted back in February in south Denver around dusk.

21. Thursday 13 November 2025 · 1 report

22. Boomerang UFO tonight 18:00 · 📍 Eastern NC (approx. 35.002677, -76.818277) · Boomerang · 🎥 Anyone know what this is? Seen in Eastern NC Time: 11/13/2025 at 6pm, Location: around 35.002677, -76.818277 I could only get this video of the boomerang for a second, b…

23. Friday 3 April 2026 · 1 report

24. Boomerang/Crescent Shaped Object 21:23 · 📍 Charleston, South Carolina, United States · Boomerang · 🎥 Hi all, got a SiOnyx Aurora night vision camera and have captured quite a few weird things… this is the weirdest one so far. I’ve seen the other night vision video of th…

25. Tuesday 6 October 2026 · 1 report

26. 1984 news report on the Hudson Valley UFO sightings 📍 Hudson Valley, New York, United States · 🎥

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