East Hampton, NY, USA
Huge spotlight hovering, disappearing cloud/smoke. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-09-19
- Where
- East Hampton, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 min
- Geo
- 40.963, -72.185 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-east-hampton-ny-2009-e6639c
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in East Hampton, NY.
- This case is one of 206 New York reports filed in 2009.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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