Syracuse, NY, USA
I was recording some shooting stars and ended up catching a ufo do a 90 degree turn.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-12-13
- Where
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 43.048, -76.147 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-syracuse-ny-2021-c8d046
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
Syracuse, NY logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2021.
In context
- One of 86 documented reports from Syracuse, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 192 sightings in 2021.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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