CaseOval2004

Scio, NY, USA

The object floated for a matter of secounds then took off very fast.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-02
Where
Scio, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
20 secounds
Geo
42.171, -77.979 · exact
Slug
oval-over-scio-ny-2004-e8173e
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

  • Scio, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 183 reports from New York.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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