Moravia, NY, USA
A round red bright sphere was dancing in the sky then shot like dart across the sky and stayed for awhile. ((anonymous report))
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-01
- Where
- Moravia, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 42.713, -76.422 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-moravia-ny-2017-cefb15
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
- Moravia, NY shows up 3 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%.
Report
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