CaseTriangle2009
Orangeburg, NY, USA
Triangular shape emerging from cloud spotted in NY.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-05-15
- Where
- Orangeburg, NY, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 02:00
- Geo
- 41.046, -73.950 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-orangeburg-ny-2009-66b352
Wave
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
- Orangeburg, NY shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 206 reports came from New York in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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