CaseLight2020

Waterford, NY, USA

Appearing to be a star. A bright light started moving among the nearby stars. moving at speeds and angles not from this earth. It would

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-30
Where
Waterford, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 hour
Geo
42.793, -73.681 · exact
Slug
light-over-waterford-ny-2020-85ed9d
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…

In context

  • Waterford, NY shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 292 reports came from New York in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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