UFOMYST
CaseLight2015

Rochester, NY, USA

Star-like object in slow circular path suddenly speeds across sky in bright white cigar shape then disappears in cloud bank

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-01-09
Where
Rochester, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
~5 seconds
Geo
43.155, -77.616 · exact
Slug
light-over-rochester-ny-2015-4d9ec2
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…

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In context

  • Rochester, NY has 139 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 301 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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