CaseLight1955
Rhinebeck, NY, USA
This very distant star-like point of light came very slowly up over the treeline from the Southwest, stopped.
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1955-10-15
- Where
- Rhinebeck, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 40 minutes
- Geo
- 41.927, -73.913 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-rhinebeck-ny-1955-47cbc6
In context
- Rhinebeck, NY shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from New York in 1955.
- In the 1950s, 11.5% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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