UFOMYST
CaseCircle2006

Ronkonkoma, NY, USA

((Possible hoax)) It was a very large circular flying obj. that had very bright lights; after about 6 seconds it vanished.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2006-03-02
Where
Ronkonkoma, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
6 sec.
Geo
40.821, -73.143 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ronkonkoma-ny-2006-48aed3
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

  • This is one of 17 reports logged in Ronkonkoma, NY.
  • This case is one of 125 New York reports filed in 2006.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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