CaseCircle2021

Corning, NY, USA

We observed a line of bright lights in the sky.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-12-04
Where
Corning, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Geo
42.143, -77.055 · exact
Slug
circle-over-corning-ny-2021-b30eb0
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

  • Corning, NY shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 192 reports came from New York in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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