Rochester, NY, USA
Seen 2 orange orbs passing NE to N each dropped 3 small bright objects then later I used a telescope because I seen 2 bright stars that
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-23
- Where
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cross
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · exact
- Slug
- cross-over-rochester-ny-2015-7fb0c1
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
- This is one of 139 reports logged in Rochester, NY.
- This case is one of 301 New York reports filed in 2015.
- Cross craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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