UFOMYST
CaseDisk2016

Hampton Bays, NY, USA

It appears the he caught a UFO shooting out of the water possible doing a barrel roll. ((NUFORC Note: Bird in flight. PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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 (86 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
2016-01-31
Where
Hampton Bays, NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
40.869, -72.518 · exact
Slug
disk-over-hampton-bays-ny-2016-7fb1ee
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

  • Hampton Bays, NY shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 218 reports came from New York in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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