CaseDiamond2008

Rockaway Beach, NY, USA

UFO at Rockaway Beach,New York

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-16
Where
Rockaway Beach, NY, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
1hour
Geo
40.587, -73.811 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-rockaway-beach-ny-2008-4bc48e
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

  • Rockaway Beach, NY shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 213 reports came from New York in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.

Report

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