Old Forge, NY, USA
It was moving faster than any other aircraft I had ever seen.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-27
- Where
- Old Forge, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 43.710, -74.974 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-old-forge-ny-2009-4b669d
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Old Forge, NY reports filed in July 2009.
In context
- Old Forge, NY shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 206 reports came from New York in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.