UFOMYST
CaseSphere2009

Waterloo, NY, USA

Clear night. I saw a very bright light in the western sky. the object moved closer than farther away than just hovered there. It change

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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-02-08
Where
Waterloo, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
35 min
Geo
42.905, -76.863 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-waterloo-ny-2009-9f48d5
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…

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In context

  • Waterloo, NY has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 206 reports from New York.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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