CaseLight2002
Rochester, NY, USA
Bright light seen in the northeastern sky over New York tonight.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-13
- Where
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-rochester-ny-2002-f6fe39
Local cluster
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Rochester, NY in August 2002 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Rochester, NY has 139 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 155 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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