CaseDisk2004

New Rochelle, NY, USA

UFO Disc covers their identity behind dark clouds but was later seen from a sharp eye before taking off.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-20
Where
New Rochelle, NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
35 seconds
Geo
40.911, -73.782 · exact
Slug
disk-over-new-rochelle-ny-2004-d86e2d
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

  • New Rochelle, NY has 24 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 183 reports from New York.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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