UFOMYST
CaseLight2010

Orchard Park, NY, USA

Xmas colored rotating lights. ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling stars?? PD))

Report quality: Low26/100

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
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2010-10-10
Where
Orchard Park, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
a few hours
Geo
42.768, -78.744 · exact
Slug
light-over-orchard-park-ny-2010-be3c6d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 19 reports logged in Orchard Park, NY.
  • This case is one of 180 New York reports filed in 2010.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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