CaseUnknown2008
Riverhead, NY, USA
UFO Spotted in Riverhead NY 01/16/08
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-16
- Where
- Riverhead, NY, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.917, -72.662 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-riverhead-ny-2008-12b967
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
- This is one of 11 reports logged in Riverhead, NY.
- This case is one of 213 New York reports filed in 2008.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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