Saratoga, NY, USA
3 lights flying at high altitude in a "V" or triangle formation. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a sighting of the U. S. Navy satellites. PD
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-09-11
- Where
- Saratoga, NY, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 Seconds
- Geo
- 37.264, -122.023 · fallback
- Slug
- unknown-over-saratoga-ny-2004-305c1d
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
- Saratoga, NY shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 183 reports came from New York in 2004.
Report
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