New York City (Yonkers), NY, USA
Radiant White object viewed in sky from Bronx River Parkway in Yonkers
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-10-14
- Where
- New York City (Yonkers), NY, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-new-york-city-yonkers-ny-2006-0290aa
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
- This is one of 8 reports logged in New York City (Yonkers), NY.
- This case is one of 125 New York reports filed in 2006.
- Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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