Schenectady, NY, USA
One egg-shaped object with odd wings on each side. Orange / yellowish color hovering above the trees approx. 2 minutes then flew quickl
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-09-08
- Where
- Schenectady, NY, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.814, -73.940 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-schenectady-ny-2014-507f42
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
- Schenectady, NY shows up 25 times across the archive.
- 332 reports came from New York in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 0.7% of reports described a egg — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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