UFOMYST
CaseCircle2018

Utica, NY, USA

Black Orb Behind Chopper Before Crash Recorded From NBC News.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-03-13
Where
Utica, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
43.101, -75.233 · exact
Slug
circle-over-utica-ny-2018-338a02
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…

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In context

  • Utica, NY shows up 48 times across the archive.
  • 115 reports came from New York in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% 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.