CaseSphere2015

North Tonnawanda, NY, USA

Strange red object over Grand Island, NY.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-05-27
Where
North Tonnawanda, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
Slug
sphere-over-north-tonnawanda-ny-2015-877fb7
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in North Tonnawanda, NY.
  • This case is one of 301 New York reports filed in 2015.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

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.