Schenectady, NY, USA
Massive 6 bright white lights in a line, slightly arched, then changed into reddish orange light ball and disappeared.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-11-16
- Where
- Schenectady, NY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.814, -73.940 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-schenectady-ny-2016-bd83a6
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 25 reports logged in Schenectady, NY.
- This case is one of 218 New York reports filed in 2016.
- Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s 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.