UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2013

Buffalo, NY, USA

I saw a yellow-orange, spherical glowing light in the early evening sky, moving horizontally at first and then changing direction.

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-18
Where
Buffalo, NY, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
20-30 seconds
Geo
42.886, -78.878 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-buffalo-ny-2013-c25fbd
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Buffalo, NY logged 5 reports in the single month of July 2013.

In context

  • One of 130 documented reports from Buffalo, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 259 sightings in 2013.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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