CaseTeardrop2018

Webster, NY, USA

((NUFORC Note: Source, who remains anonymous, fails to provide any information about the alleged sighting incident. PD))

Report quality: Moderate43/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • No witness text on file
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-12-28
Where
Webster, NY, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
43.212, -77.430 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-webster-ny-2018-69680a
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

  • This is one of 21 reports logged in Webster, NY.
  • This case is one of 115 New York reports filed in 2018.
  • Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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