UFOMYST
CaseSphere2020

Flushing, NY, USA

Orange orb/sphere, basketball sized, translucent and bioluminescent, like a jellyfish. Shifting circle within the sphere, like an eye..

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-20
Where
Flushing, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minute
Geo
40.765, -73.817 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-flushing-ny-2020-248ed2
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

  • Flushing, NY has 14 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 292 reports from New York.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.