CaseDisk1971
Corning, NY, USA
Witnesses in Corning, New York reported a disk-shaped object that made no noise as it leveled off and descended into a field, during a roughly five-minute sighting in August 1971.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (179 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-08-10
- Where
- Corning, NY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- approx. 5 min.
- Geo
- 42.143, -77.055 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-corning-ny-1971-1c0485
In context
- One of 6 documented reports from Corning, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 5 sightings in 1971.
- Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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