CaseLight1998
Utica, NY, USA
two very bright lights in southern sky descended slowlyand dimmed to gray then back to bright and disappeared.
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-18
- Where
- Utica, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 sec.
- Geo
- 43.101, -75.233 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-utica-ny-1998-3aaf16
In context
- Utica, NY shows up 48 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%.
Report
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