Buffalo, NY, USA
We observed 7 circular lights in V formation traveling WNW-ESE. Lights in the rear were criss-crossing within the formation. They trave
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-09-18
- Where
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 sec
- Geo
- 42.886, -78.878 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-buffalo-ny-2004-f34526
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 130 reports logged in Buffalo, NY.
- This case is one of 183 New York reports filed in 2004.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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