UFOMYST
CaseOther2019

Buffalo, NY, USA

It looked like a giant metallic flying ping pong in the shape of a horseshoe.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-12-30
Where
Buffalo, NY, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
42.886, -78.878 · exact
Slug
other-over-buffalo-ny-2019-b0a2f2
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…

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In context

  • Buffalo, NY shows up 130 times across the archive.
  • 192 reports came from New York in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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.