UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

3 bright orange cirles where heading southeast around 9:00pm est. At a very slow speed. After several minutes 2 of the orange cirlces d

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-12
Where
Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
41.271, -73.778 · exact
Slug
circle-over-yorktown-heights-ny-2012-f318ef
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…

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In context

  • Yorktown Heights, NY has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 383 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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