UFOMYST
CaseFlash2008

Newburgh, NY, USA

Myself and a co-worker witnessed a bright metallic saucer shaped object in the morning while driving on the NYS thruway.

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-06-11
Where
Newburgh, NY, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 sec
Geo
41.503, -74.010 · exact
Slug
flash-over-newburgh-ny-2008-4fb169
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 21 documented reports from Newburgh, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 213 sightings in 2008.
  • Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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