Buffalo area (In-flight observation), NY, USA
Bright lghts apppeared at our 12 o'clock and moved to our 9 o'clock position slowly. ((NUFORC Note: Pilot report. PD))
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-01-11
- Where
- Buffalo area (In-flight observation), NY, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
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- Slug
- unknown-over-buffalo-area-in-flight-observation-ny-2011-378b40
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
- Buffalo area (In-flight observation), NY shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 251 reports came from New York in 2011.
Report
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