UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2015

Wantagh, NY, USA

We saw high up in the sky three long objects in the sky. We thought at first helicopters. Lights went on (all lite up like fire) and

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2015-07-23
Where
Wantagh, NY, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
1 hour
Geo
40.684, -73.510 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-wantagh-ny-2015-510a18
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

  • One of 12 documented reports from Wantagh, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 301 sightings in 2015.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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