CaseCigar2012

Hawthorne, NY, USA

Mysterious "flood lights" spotted in sky

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-02-03
Where
Hawthorne, NY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
41.107, -73.796 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-hawthorne-ny-2012-6ad522
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 2 reports logged in Hawthorne, NY.
  • This case is one of 383 New York reports filed in 2012.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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