CaseChevron1979
Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
1/4 moon-like, its 'chord' or flat side parallel to horizon, bright orange-red glow, completely silent, no features.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-10-10
- Where
- Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.700, -73.921 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-poughkeepsie-ny-1979-9a1e0f
In context
- This is one of 28 reports logged in Poughkeepsie, NY.
- This case is one of 19 New York reports filed in 1979.
- Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 1970s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.