UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Lockport, NY, USA

Low in the eastern sky over a farming area I spotted a ball of bright light, every once in a while it seemed a ring of color would move

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-15
Where
Lockport, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
25 minutes
Geo
43.171, -78.690 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-lockport-ny-1997-f9828a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 21 reports logged in Lockport, NY.
  • This case is one of 55 New York reports filed in 1997.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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