UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

Cooperstown, NY, USA

Event occurred at around 23:30 June 12, 2009. While sitting at the lake edge, watching planes and satellites pass overhead, I had seen

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-06-12
Where
Cooperstown, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
42.700, -74.924 · exact
Slug
light-over-cooperstown-ny-2009-81af19
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Cooperstown, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 206 sightings in 2009.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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