CaseCircle2017
Higginsville, NY, USA
White orb seen trailing airplane at same speed.
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: 24s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-10
- Where
- Higginsville, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 24 seconds
- Geo
- 43.177, -75.647 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-higginsville-ny-2017-67c509
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Higginsville, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 187 reports from New York.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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