Copake, NY, USA
Driving E on RTE23 we saw 3 orange oblong lights in a triangular form about 50 feet to each light.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-17
- Where
- Copake, NY, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 42.103, -73.550 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-copake-ny-2017-febe9a
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Copake, NY shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 187 reports came from New York in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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