Wantagh, NY, USA
was taking picture of sunset when developing pictures, saw white sphere in background & enlarged it showing what appears to be UFO
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-14
- Where
- Wantagh, NY, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 40.684, -73.510 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-wantagh-ny-2004-98bf9f
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 12 reports logged in Wantagh, NY.
- This case is one of 183 New York reports filed in 2004.
- Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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