Watkins Glen, NY, USA
Three lights in the night sky over upstate NY moving erratically and very quickly
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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 (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-13
- Where
- Watkins Glen, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 42.381, -76.873 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-watkins-glen-ny-2011-b55aa5
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
Watkins Glen, NY logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2011.
In context
- One of 11 documented reports from Watkins Glen, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 251 sightings in 2011.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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