UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Clifton park, NY, USA

Bright circle hovering over Clifton park. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly Venus?? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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
  • Brief witness text (41 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
2020-04-10
Where
Clifton park, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 hours
Geo
42.866, -73.771 · exact
Slug
circle-over-clifton-park-ny-2020-9bd165
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 10 documented reports from Clifton park, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 292 sightings in 2020.
  • Circle sightings ran at 11.9% during the 2020s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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