Williamsville, NY, USA
What we saw- 1 large ring with a middle that was not filled in, in the sky with 2 jets in the back and one flashing yellow light in bet
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-30
- Where
- Williamsville, NY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.964, -78.738 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-williamsville-ny-2008-162ef7
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 12 reports logged in Williamsville, NY.
- This case is one of 213 New York reports filed in 2008.
- Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s 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.