UFOMYST
CaseOval2016

Mastic Beach, NY, USA

Fishing Narrow Bay facing NW, white spherical object appeared and jetted upward diagonally at about a 20° incline and disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-31
Where
Mastic Beach, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
40.767, -72.852 · exact
Slug
oval-over-mastic-beach-ny-2016-394c13
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

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In context

  • One of 10 documented reports from Mastic Beach, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 218 sightings in 2016.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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