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 days

Report

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