Wappingers Falls, NY, USA
Circular object with pulsing light seen over Stewart Air National Gaurd base in Newburgh New York. ((NUFORC Note: Venus sighting.))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 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
- 2005-11-14
- Where
- Wappingers Falls, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 41.596, -73.911 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-wappingers-falls-ny-2005-b0731a
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
- Wappingers Falls, NY has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 162 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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