UFOMYST
CaseSphere2016

Dix Hills, NY, USA

10-12 orange flickering spheres going N to S, horizon to horizon in about 20-25 seconds.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-06-22
Where
Dix Hills, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
40.805, -73.336 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-dix-hills-ny-2016-406d2c
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…

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In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from Dix Hills, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 218 sightings in 2016.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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