CaseOval2012

Clarence, NY, USA

Balloon shape object, that appeared to have flames glowing within, traveling over Clarence NY 8/29/12

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-29
Where
Clarence, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 minute
Geo
42.977, -78.592 · exact
Slug
oval-over-clarence-ny-2012-2cd171
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

  • Clarence, NY has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 383 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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