CaseOther2009

Hampton Bays, NY, USA

Black, cresnet shaped object with four dim lights raced across the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-12-21
Where
Hampton Bays, NY, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.869, -72.518 · exact
Slug
other-over-hampton-bays-ny-2009-703406
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

  • Hampton Bays, NY has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 206 reports from New York.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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