Hinckley, NY, USA
A light of great magnitude was hovering overa barn.It did not make fast moves.IT lastedfor about five or six minutes.The disk wasorange
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-29
- Where
- Hinckley, NY, USA
- Shape
- light
- Duration
- five minutes
- Geo
- 43.312, -75.122 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-hinckley-ny-1997-85f8ba
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Hinckley, NY.
- This case is one of 55 New York reports filed in 1997.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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