UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Port Chester, NY, USA

Orange/Reddish orb/light high altitude moving East to West from lower NY fades to nothing after stopping in mid air

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-03
Where
Port Chester, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
41.002, -73.666 · exact
Slug
circle-over-port-chester-ny-2017-5d3482
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Port Chester, NY.
  • This case is one of 187 New York reports filed in 2017.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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