CaseLight1998
Elba, NY, USA
Saw brief white light travel allong the horizon, stop midflight and then continue on a different course, at extreem rates of exellera
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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-06
- Where
- Elba, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15-20 seconds
- Geo
- 43.077, -78.187 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-elba-ny-1998-d1cf01
In context
- Elba, NY shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 71 reports came from New York in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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