UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2007

Melville, NY, USA

Two bright rectangular objects on opposite sides of the Horizon at Sunset that were bright for ten minutes and then dimmed out of the s

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2007-07-22
Where
Melville, NY, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.793, -73.415 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-melville-ny-2007-176a7f
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Melville, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 173 sightings in 2007.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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