Rochester, NY, USA
12 to 15 points of light in formation of 2 triangle shapes, 2 loose ones on the left very fast heading north
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-26
- Where
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-rochester-ny-2008-51b515
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.
- 213 reports came from New York in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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