Watervliet, NY, USA
Two daytime sightings of glowing orb-like objects within a short period of time
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-02-28
- Where
- Watervliet, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 42.730, -73.701 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-watervliet-ny-2019-d9f39a
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…
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Watervliet, 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.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.