Richmond Hill, NY, USA
The UFO was a saucer shape, and it had bright red lights. It didn't stay around too long.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-21
- Where
- Richmond Hill, NY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- saw this twice 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.700, -73.831 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-richmond-hill-ny-2004-6e62d8
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
- Richmond Hill, NY has 5 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 daysReport
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