UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

New York, NY, USA

Looking up to the sky thought it was a shooting star; realized it was a very intense white light circle in shape.((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-30
Where
New York, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
circle-over-new-york-ny-2016-0674da
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • New York, NY shows up 54 times across the archive.
  • 218 reports came from New York in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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