UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2020

Tomkins Cove, NY, USA

Extremely slow moving cylinder shaped object in sky to the west just above the tree line. There was no noise, no vapor, no lights...jus

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-21
Where
Tomkins Cove, NY, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
41.257, -73.983 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-tomkins-cove-ny-2020-dc059e
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Tomkins Cove, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 292 sightings in 2020.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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