Utica, NY, USA
8 Strange Lights Over Utica, NY.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-09-13
- Where
- Utica, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 43.101, -75.233 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-utica-ny-2019-70178e
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…
Local cluster
5 reports came out of Utica, NY in September 2019 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Utica, NY has 48 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 192 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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