CaseLight1998

Utica, NY, USA

two very bright lights in southern sky descended slowlyand dimmed to gray then back to bright and disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1998-12-18
Where
Utica, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
45 sec.
Geo
43.101, -75.233 · exact
Slug
light-over-utica-ny-1998-3aaf16

In context

  • Utica, NY shows up 48 times across the archive.
  • 71 reports came from New York in 1998.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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