CaseCircle2016

Lido Beach, NY, USA

Numerous white round objects observed during day light hours on Long Island

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-11
Where
Lido Beach, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.589, -73.625 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lido-beach-ny-2016-47b830
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…

In context

  • Lido Beach, NY has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 218 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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