UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2012

Ashville, NY, USA

Teardrop craft with insanely bright trail shoots toward space then disappears in an instant.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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 (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-03-16
Where
Ashville, NY, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
42.096, -79.376 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-ashville-ny-2012-19ec3b
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

  • Ashville, NY has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 383 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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