Whitney Point, NY, USA
The object moved at high speed up and down and left and right in an oblong pattern. ((NUFORC Note: Probable celestial body. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-11-08
- Where
- Whitney Point, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2hr + still going
- Geo
- 42.329, -75.968 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-whitney-point-ny-2009-5c9abc
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
- Whitney Point, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 206 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
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.