UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

Buffalo, NY, Unknown

My wife and I saw a reddish-yellow, pulsing light in the night sky.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-24
Where
Buffalo, NY, Unknown
Shape
Light
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.886, -78.878 · fallback
Slug
light-over-buffalo-ny-2016-618c3c
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

  • Buffalo, Unknown shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Unknown in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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