UFOMYST
CaseOther2009

Riverhead, NY, USA

Huge V shaped object with yellow lights and no sound surrounded by a hazy fog

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-03-15
Where
Riverhead, NY, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
1 minute
Geo
40.917, -72.662 · exact
Slug
other-over-riverhead-ny-2009-70381b
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…

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In context

  • Riverhead, NY has 11 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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