CaseLight2013
Rochester, NY, USA
Orange orbs near Lake Ontario.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-05-26
- Where
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-rochester-ny-2013-d5c74f
Wave
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
- One of 139 documented reports from Rochester, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 259 sightings in 2013.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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