Olmsteadville, NY, USA
I was hiking with my sister and her dog at Minerva Lake in New York. I took a series of pictures of the sky with the lake.
Report quality: Moderate43/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-08
- Where
- Olmsteadville, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-olmsteadville-ny-2015-cff85a
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
- Olmsteadville, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 301 reports from New York.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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