UFOMYST
CaseEgg2012

Mechanicville, NY, USA

Green/Blue tear drop shape shot down from the sky, emitting a bright white light. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2012-02-28
Where
Mechanicville, NY, USA
Shape
Egg
Duration
1 second
Geo
42.903, -73.687 · exact
Slug
egg-over-mechanicville-ny-2012-eceb11
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Mechanicville, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 383 sightings in 2012.
  • Egg sightings ran at 0.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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