Syracuse, NY, USA
Bright orange object, 5-10 arcmin, indistinct borders, S. to N., 4 min horizon to horizon.
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-08-29
- Where
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 43.048, -76.147 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-syracuse-ny-2014-666361
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
- Syracuse, NY has 86 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 332 reports from New York.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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