Lockport, NY, USA
An orange glowing, fiery light, large or close, flying in a south easterly direction.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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 (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-04
- Where
- Lockport, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 43.171, -78.690 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lockport-ny-2014-332ad1
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
- This is one of 21 reports logged in Lockport, NY.
- This case is one of 332 New York reports filed in 2014.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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