CaseOther1974
Esopus, NY, USA
A report from Esopus, NY in May 1974 described an aqua-blue orb moving north-northeast at high speed through the Hudson Valley, lasting 5 Seconds.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (146 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-05-15
- Where
- Esopus, NY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 Seconds
- Geo
- 41.828, -73.965 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-esopus-ny-1974-41229c
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Esopus, NY.
- This case is one of 14 New York reports filed in 1974.
- Other craft made up 6.5% of 1970s 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.