Niskayuna, NY, USA
The craft did not look or act like a plane and was silent as it first hovered then moved through sky just above the trees.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-04
- Where
- Niskayuna, NY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- minutes
- Geo
- 42.780, -73.846 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-niskayuna-ny-2013-77e9ea
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Niskayuna, NY.
- This case is one of 259 New York reports filed in 2013.
- Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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