UFOMYST
CaseLight2004

Utica, NY, USA

Two white lights, two blue-green lights (1/2 the size of the former), all looked like stars visible in the daytime.

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 (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-12
Where
Utica, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
45 sec
Geo
43.101, -75.233 · exact
Slug
light-over-utica-ny-2004-e43abf
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 48 documented reports from Utica, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 183 sightings in 2004.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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