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

  • Historical wave1997

    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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