UFOMYST
CaseFlash2019

Wantagh, NY, USA

Driving during a clear sky sunrise, I witnessed a bright circular flash in the open sky and then it disappeared. Silent.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-08-30
Where
Wantagh, NY, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
40.684, -73.510 · exact
Slug
flash-over-wantagh-ny-2019-642f60
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

  • Wantagh, NY shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 192 reports came from New York in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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