Plattsburgh, NY, USA
Saw a light in the sky moving erratically, zig zagging and changing its rate of speed.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-08-14
- Where
- Plattsburgh, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 Minutes+
- Geo
- 44.699, -73.453 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-plattsburgh-ny-2021-e271f6
Part of a wave
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
- Plattsburgh, NY has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 192 reports from New York.
- The 2020s skewed 21.4% 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.