Centereach, NY, USA
The object was diamond shaped, and flashed several different colors in a rapid manner.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-21
- Where
- Centereach, NY, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1 Minute & 30 Seconds
- Geo
- 40.858, -73.100 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-centereach-ny-2009-e2f3b7
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
- Centereach, NY has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 206 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
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.