CaseCircle1998
Belmont, NY, USA
A pencil lead streak across the sky dropped hundreds of miles, the object slowly move toward the west.
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-04
- Where
- Belmont, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 7 sec
- Geo
- 42.223, -78.034 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-belmont-ny-1998-8b9ca1
In context
- Belmont, NY has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 71 reports from New York.
- The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.