UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2008

Buffalo, NY, USA

First of all let me say that I'm not entirely sure whether what i saw were a UFO or simply aircrafts flying in a unusual formation. --

Report quality: High73/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-07-21
Where
Buffalo, NY, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
1 minutes?
Geo
42.886, -78.878 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-buffalo-ny-2008-f2cace
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Buffalo, NY in July 2008 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Buffalo, NY has 130 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 213 reports from New York.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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