Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
((HOAX??)) Saw a red-orange-ish circle. Sat there for 15 min and then watched as it flew away.
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2014-09-24
- Where
- Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 43.083, -73.785 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-saratoga-springs-ny-2014-a511ee
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 14 reports logged in Saratoga Springs, 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.
Report
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