Rush, NY, USA
dull grey craft spotted flying fast and low with no sound then seemed to dissapear
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-12-25
- Where
- Rush, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15seconds
- Geo
- 42.996, -77.646 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-rush-ny-2005-5088f9
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
- Rush, NY shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 162 reports came from New York in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.