UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Eden, NY, USA

Circular light image moving in an arc downward. Brightly lit, white-yellow with warmer tones flaring out on the bottom. It's size was

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-08
Where
Eden, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30-60 sec.
Geo
41.289, -74.494 · exact
Slug
light-over-eden-ny-1997-0dc218
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Eden, NY shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 55 reports came from New York in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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