CaseCircle2002
Hamburg, NY, USA
It was too large to be Venus or a Star, and there was multiple witnesses.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-08
- Where
- Hamburg, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- A few minutes
- Geo
- 42.716, -78.829 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-hamburg-ny-2002-fe84e9
In context
- Hamburg, NY shows up 20 times across the archive.
- 155 reports came from New York in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate 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.