UFOMYST
CaseSphere2014

Rochester (Sea Breeze), NY, USA

White light pulsed bright and then faded away rather quickly. ((NUFORC Note: Possible flare from Iridium satellite?? PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2014-07-12
Where
Rochester (Sea Breeze), NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
43.155, -77.616 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-rochester-sea-breeze-ny-2014-9ce117
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 →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Rochester (Sea Breeze), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 332 sightings in 2014.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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