CaseUnknown2012

Amsterdam, NY, USA

I was driving East on Miami Ave, Amsterdam NY around 11:30 when I saw a large bright object in the sky. The occupant I was with record

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-31
Where
Amsterdam, NY, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15 minutess
Geo
42.939, -74.188 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-amsterdam-ny-2012-ac5098
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…

In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Amsterdam, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 383 sightings in 2012.

Report

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