CaseChanging2008

Orchard Park, NY, USA

It got me off. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-23
Where
Orchard Park, NY, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 Min
Geo
42.768, -78.744 · exact
Slug
changing-over-orchard-park-ny-2008-812174
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

  • This is one of 19 reports logged in Orchard Park, NY.
  • This case is one of 213 New York reports filed in 2008.
  • Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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