UFOMYST
CaseSphere2004

Fairport, NY, USA

Odd orb like object hovering very closely above the canal that was joined by another and took off suddenly after a couple moments.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-23
Where
Fairport, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 1/2 minutes
Geo
43.099, -77.442 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-fairport-ny-2004-577ad5
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from Fairport, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 183 sightings in 2004.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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