CaseUnknown1996
Rochester, NY, USA
Man, brother, see bright yellow light hovering over local woods suddenly descend into woods, turn to orange. Sudden flash of light.
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 (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-05-13
- Where
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 35 min.
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-rochester-ny-1996-1b89c1
In context
- Rochester, NY shows up 139 times across the archive.
- 28 reports came from New York in 1996.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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