UFOMYST
CaseOval2017

Big Flats, NY, USA

I went outside to check our gutters since it was raining heavily. While looking up toward the gutters and the sky I notice a very larg

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-10-09
Where
Big Flats, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
6:05
Geo
42.137, -76.937 · exact
Slug
oval-over-big-flats-ny-2017-e526d2
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

  • One of 2 documented reports from Big Flats, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 187 sightings in 2017.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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