CaseLight1997
Central New York, NY, USA
Saw 3 to 12 lights appear and then disappear one by one, this went on for about 2 days.
Report quality: Moderate41/100
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: 172800s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-28
- Where
- Central New York, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 days
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-central-new-york-ny-1997-9cbdce
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Central New York, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 55 reports from New York.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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