Wantagh, NY, USA
My son and his 2 friends were on a second story deck when one noticed a V-formation of lights. The lights were orange-amber and extrem
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-05-17
- Where
- Wantagh, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.684, -73.510 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-wantagh-ny-2013-76ef0e
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 12 documented reports from Wantagh, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 259 sightings in 2013.
- Cone sightings ran at 0.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.4%).
Report
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