UFOMYST
CaseCone2016

St. James, NY, USA

Cone-shaped light with cluster of lights around it, orange lights. ((anonymous report))

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-16
Where
St. James, NY, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
1 minute
Geo
40.879, -73.157 · exact
Slug
cone-over-st-james-ny-2016-c990c0
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 6 reports logged in St. James, NY.
  • This case is one of 218 New York reports filed in 2016.
  • Cone craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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