Franklin, NY, USA
dancing light (lights) appear to be in a cluster that changes shape and color.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-16
- Where
- Franklin, NY, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 2hrs
- Geo
- 42.341, -75.165 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-franklin-ny-2009-13cbe0
Part of a wave
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
- Franklin, NY shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 206 reports came from New York in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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