UFOMYST
CaseChevron1978

Chester, NY, USA

6 chevron shaped objects seen in the daytime sky doing "loop-de-loops" at high altitude

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-01
Where
Chester, NY, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
41.363, -74.271 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-chester-ny-1978-1c44df
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Chester, NY has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 24 reports from New York.
  • The 1970s skewed 1.1% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.

Report

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