UFOMYST
CaseChanging2021

Hampton Bays, NY, USA

Orange orb moving oddly low in the sky, two additional orbs appeared behind it forming an elongated triangle.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-18
Where
Hampton Bays, NY, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
40.869, -72.518 · exact
Slug
changing-over-hampton-bays-ny-2021-0731ce
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Hampton Bays, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 192 sightings in 2021.
  • Changing sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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