Ronkonkoma, NY, USA
It was Thursday morning at 11:45 AM on the 5th of May 2005. I was parked in a shopping center waiting for my girlfriend to finish cash
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-05
- Where
- Ronkonkoma, NY, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.821, -73.143 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-ronkonkoma-ny-2005-450e1c
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
- This is one of 17 reports logged in Ronkonkoma, NY.
- This case is one of 162 New York reports filed in 2005.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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