CaseCircle1998
Lancaster, NY, USA
On a partly cloudy day, a shiney, silver ball hovered and then shot straight across the sky moving south at great speed.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-15
- Where
- Lancaster, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1Minute
- Geo
- 42.901, -78.670 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lancaster-ny-1998-b82c37
In context
- One of 11 documented reports from Lancaster, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 71 sightings in 1998.
- Circle sightings ran at 6.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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