UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Allegany, NY, USA

Ball of light

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (13 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-15
Where
Allegany, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.090, -78.494 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-allegany-ny-1997-1f70cb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Allegany, NY has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 55 reports from New York.
  • The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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.