St. James, NY, USA
A white circle, low in the Western sky appears all evening, with constant zig zagging and rainbow-colored flashes.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-28
- Where
- St. James, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- LATE NIGHT
- Geo
- 40.879, -73.157 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-st-james-ny-2009-30e54c
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 6 reports logged in St. James, 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.
Report
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