UFOMYST
CaseOval2008

Buffalo, NY, USA

UFO with Yellow and Red spotlights which sped off or vanished.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-07-15
Where
Buffalo, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
42.886, -78.878 · exact
Slug
oval-over-buffalo-ny-2008-2726c0
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Buffalo, NY logged 4 reports in the single month of July 2008.

In context

  • One of 130 documented reports from Buffalo, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 213 sightings in 2008.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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