CaseTeardrop2001
Ballston Lake, NY, USA
Teardrop shaped, small craft hovering about 50 ft from the road above Route 50 in Saratoga County on a snowy evening January 5, 2001.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-05
- Where
- Ballston Lake, NY, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 3 mins
- Geo
- 42.912, -73.868 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-ballston-lake-ny-2001-cc54ac
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Ballston Lake, NY.
- This case is one of 152 New York reports filed in 2001.
- Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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