CaseTeardrop2011

Tuckahoe, NY, USA

About 50 degree weather with sunny skies, driving along Tuckahoe road, all of a sudden up in the sky infront of us we saw 1 (one) brigh

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-02-14
Where
Tuckahoe, NY, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
3 SECONDS
Geo
40.950, -73.827 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-tuckahoe-ny-2011-c0568e
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

  • Tuckahoe, NY shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 251 reports came from New York in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Report

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