UFOMYST
CaseCircle2014

Troy, NY, USA

Strange circular orange light cruising over my house and disappearing into the clouds.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-05-12
Where
Troy, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
42.728, -73.692 · exact
Slug
circle-over-troy-ny-2014-e0b587
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

  • Troy, NY has 15 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 332 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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