CaseChanging2017

Buffalo, NY, USA

3 orange-ish to reddish dots. We were facing abound and seen 3 lights that staid lit for roughly 8 mins. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-04
Where
Buffalo, NY, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
42.886, -78.878 · exact
Slug
changing-over-buffalo-ny-2017-36625d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

Local cluster

Local cluster

July 2017 was a busy month for Buffalo, NY: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 130 reports logged in Buffalo, NY.
  • This case is one of 187 New York reports filed in 2017.
  • Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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