UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Long Island, NY, USA

((HOAX??)) 3 fireball ufos seen above Elmont, Long Island. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low12/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-10-01
Where
Long Island, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1:40
Geo
40.817, -73.066 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-long-island-ny-2016-1a7f44
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

  • Long Island, NY has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 218 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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