Central Square, NY, USA
Two separate occasions... red balls traveling northbound through center of sky. First one seemed to "burn out" after a bit.
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 (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-06-05
- Where
- Central Square, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 min (each)
- Geo
- 43.287, -76.146 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-central-square-ny-2016-d53b7e
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Central Square, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 218 sightings in 2016.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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