Syracuse, NY, USA
Craft spotted during fireworks show.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-04
- Where
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 43.048, -76.147 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-syracuse-ny-2015-053c57
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…
Local cluster
Syracuse, NY logged 4 reports in the single month of July 2015.
In context
- One of 86 documented reports from Syracuse, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 301 sightings in 2015.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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.