CaseLight2020

Lakeport, NY, USA

The lights were still for about 3 minutes. Then disappears began to head towards us at fast rate... they flew over us and then vanish

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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-15
Where
Lakeport, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
8 minutes
Geo
43.145, -75.872 · exact
Slug
light-over-lakeport-ny-2020-ae8f9a
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

  • Lakeport, NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 292 reports came from New York in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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