CaseDisk2018

Buffalo, NY, USA

I didn't see any light in the sky while taking the photos, the light anomaly was visible after the photo was taken.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-06-19
Where
Buffalo, NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
Geo
42.886, -78.878 · exact
Slug
disk-over-buffalo-ny-2018-13a83e
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…

In context

  • Buffalo, NY has 130 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 115 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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