CaseLight1974
New Paltz, NY, USA
As a child in upstate New York Iwitnessed a bright light moving erratically and quickly in the night sky. ( I currently live in the UK)
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-06-01
- Where
- New Paltz, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 41.748, -74.087 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-new-paltz-ny-1974-b67469
In context
- New Paltz, NY shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 14 reports came from New York in 1974.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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