New Paltz, NY, USA
Dark black flying saucer with 3 VERY BRIGHT lights landed in my backyard for 10 seconds and shot back in the sky very fast.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-15
- Where
- New Paltz, NY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 41.748, -74.087 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-new-paltz-ny-2008-2519fa
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
- New Paltz, NY has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 213 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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