Medina, NY, USA
Saw 3 orange round lights motionless,change shapes and move eratically ,vanish and reappear.Have video
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-05-15
- Where
- Medina, NY, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 43.220, -78.387 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-medina-ny-2008-5bf0cd
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
- Medina, NY shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 213 reports came from New York in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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