UFOMYST
CaseLight2019

Rochester, NY, USA

Usual bright star in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Venus?? PD)) ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • 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
2019-01-03
Where
Rochester, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 hour
Geo
43.155, -77.616 · exact
Slug
light-over-rochester-ny-2019-a2f3c0
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

January 2019 was a busy month for Rochester, NY: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 139 reports logged in Rochester, NY.
  • This case is one of 192 New York reports filed in 2019.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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