UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Cobleskill, NY, USA

Looking east, low in the sky, a bright orange circular figure was just "sitting" there.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-30
Where
Cobleskill, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
42.678, -74.485 · exact
Slug
light-over-cobleskill-ny-1997-b91be4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Cobleskill, NY has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 55 reports from New York.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.