Ardsley, NY, USA
seven lights in formation rotate and change formation to resemble the Big Dipper
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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 (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-08-28
- Where
- Ardsley, NY, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.011, -73.844 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-ardsley-ny-2010-1b2ab4
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…
Local cluster
August 2010 was a busy month for Ardsley, NY: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Ardsley, NY.
- This case is one of 180 New York reports filed in 2010.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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