Bloomingburg, NY, USA
Flashing blue and red light moving around in a circle of tiny white lights. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Sirius?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-01-13
- Where
- Bloomingburg, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- ~6 minutes
- Geo
- 41.554, -74.440 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-bloomingburg-ny-2017-c7f611
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
- Bloomingburg, NY shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 187 reports came from New York in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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