Batavia, NY, USA
Triangular UFO witnessed by 3 people and then again at different location by unknown person.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-10-30
- Where
- Batavia, NY, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 42.998, -78.188 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-batavia-ny-2018-47695a
Part of a wave
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
- Batavia, NY shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 115 reports came from New York in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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