UFOMYST
CaseDisk2016

Bethany (Route 1), DE, USA

Very slow flying disk with with white orbital/flashing lights around bottom. Low flying then ascended vanishing after short period.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-04-21
Where
Bethany (Route 1), DE, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
38.540, -75.055 · exact
Slug
disk-over-bethany-route-1-de-2016-352c8f
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Bethany (Route 1), DE shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 19 reports came from Delaware in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.