UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2006

Massapequa, NY, USA

flashing ball of colorful lights. ((NUFORC Note: Possible twinkling star. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2006-10-08
Where
Massapequa, NY, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
4 hours
Geo
40.681, -73.474 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-massapequa-ny-2006-b3ab4b
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 17 documented reports from Massapequa, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 125 sightings in 2006.

Report

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