UFOMYST
CaseSphere2015

Schenectady, NY, USA

Orange ball that grew in size from a star to a small marble rising from the horizon in the north till it faded away into space.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-10-16
Where
Schenectady, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
42.814, -73.940 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-schenectady-ny-2015-a8c33c
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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In context

  • This is one of 25 reports logged in Schenectady, NY.
  • This case is one of 301 New York reports filed in 2015.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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