Rochester, NY, USA
Square or diamond shaped object hovering and moving very fast over Rochester, NY. 12/23/15 7:30 p.m. (EST).
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: 780s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-12-23
- Where
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 13 minutes
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-rochester-ny-2015-04bf0d
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
- Rochester, NY shows up 139 times across the archive.
- 301 reports came from New York in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
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