Rotterdam/Amsterdam, NY, USA
Large size and very bright light in the sky about 20x the size of an avg. "shooting star." It was going across the sky, SLOW
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-11-09
- Where
- Rotterdam/Amsterdam, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 42.787, -73.971 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-rotterdam-amsterdam-ny-2015-6e220f
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
- Rotterdam/Amsterdam, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 301 reports from New York.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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