UFOMYST
CaseCone2009

Riverhead, NY, USA

It was like a bright white spot light. It then split into 2 and disapeared. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-19
Where
Riverhead, NY, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
less than 1 minute
Geo
40.917, -72.662 · exact
Slug
cone-over-riverhead-ny-2009-4cf17e
Wave

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In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from Riverhead, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 206 sightings in 2009.
  • Cone sightings ran at 0.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.4%).

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