CaseRectangle2014

Yorktown, NY, USA

I saw this object out of the side of my car and it was large with a big neon green glow to it thne shortly after it disapears.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-12-29
Where
Yorktown, NY, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
41.296, -73.808 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-yorktown-ny-2014-22fcdd
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

  • Yorktown, NY has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 332 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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