CaseChanging2016

Canton, NY, USA

((HOAX??)) Large object dispersed two smaller objects. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-06-18
Where
Canton, NY, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
44.596, -75.169 · exact
Slug
changing-over-canton-ny-2016-d8148e
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…

In context

  • Canton, NY shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 218 reports came from New York in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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