Albany (area), NY, USA
IT WAS JUST TURNING DARK=HUDSON RIVERS AT THE END OF MY BACK YARD=IT WAS VERY REAL AND THE ONLY UNUSAL THING I HAVE EVER WITNESSED IN M
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-01
- Where
- Albany (area), NY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.653, -73.756 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-albany-area-ny-1997-877861
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Albany (area), NY.
- This case is one of 55 New York reports filed in 1997.
- Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% 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.