CaseLight2020
Buffalo, NY, USA
Bright line of dotted lights in night sky. ((Starlink satellites?))
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-24
- Where
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.886, -78.878 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-buffalo-ny-2020-f07ab5
Wave
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 292 New York reports filed in 2020.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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