CaseTriangle2004

Ithaca, NY, USA

Triangle With USAF in Grey on Black on Underside of Fuselage

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-05-11
Where
Ithaca, NY, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 min
Geo
42.441, -76.497 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-ithaca-ny-2004-c4ad3b
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

  • Ithaca, NY shows up 31 times across the archive.
  • 183 reports came from New York in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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