CaseChanging2020

Grand island, NY, USA

Outside doing work and saw some thing shining in the sky overhead, as I observed it changed shape from something shiny and metal to som

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-01
Where
Grand island, NY, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1 minute
Geo
43.033, -78.963 · exact
Slug
changing-over-grand-island-ny-2020-171426
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…

In context

  • Grand island, NY shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 292 reports came from New York in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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