New Rochelle, NY, USA
Very loud humming noise that seemed to move slow, rectagular shape with rounded corners. 10/13/04 - 11:50pm
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-13
- Where
- New Rochelle, NY, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.911, -73.782 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-new-rochelle-ny-2004-2dcda7
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 Rochelle, NY has 24 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 183 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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