CaseCircle2017

Huntington, NY, USA

Glow behind clouds followed by four bright glow and fade circles. ((NUFORC Note: Rocket launch from Wallops Island. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-06-29
Where
Huntington, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.868, -73.426 · exact
Slug
circle-over-huntington-ny-2017-263083
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Huntington, NY logged 3 reports in the single month of June 2017.

In context

  • One of 20 documented reports from Huntington, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 187 sightings in 2017.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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