UFOMYST
CaseFormation2012

Saranac Lake, NY, USA

Was driving, saw 7-10 very bright lights in a curved row, all evenly spaced, then half of the lights disappeared one by one, reappeared

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • 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
2012-01-11
Where
Saranac Lake, NY, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
44.330, -74.131 · exact
Slug
formation-over-saranac-lake-ny-2012-e89ee3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Saranac Lake, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 383 sightings in 2012.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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