Chautauqua Lake, NY, USA
Six bright white fast moving lights appeared above us, one of which passed under a jet and followed our boat.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-15
- Where
- Chautauqua Lake, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 35 minutes
- Geo
- 42.169, -79.404 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-chautauqua-lake-ny-2021-57d658
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
- Chautauqua Lake, NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 192 reports came from New York in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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