Clarksville, NY, USA
As I was watching, it slowly began to move off to the left, above the tree tops.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-28
- Where
- Clarksville, NY, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 7 min
- Geo
- 42.576, -73.964 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-clarksville-ny-2004-c3fae4
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
- Clarksville, NY has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 183 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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