UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2012

Lancaster, NY, USA

Bright green light in Lancaster, NY.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-27
Where
Lancaster, NY, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
42.901, -78.670 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-lancaster-ny-2012-0e2231
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

  • Lancaster, NY shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 383 reports came from New York in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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