UFOMYST
CaseOval2021

Copiague, NY, USA

Object was moving horizontally at a very fast speed and then made a 45 degree turn downward. The object did not descend downward like a

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-19
Where
Copiague, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
40.681, -73.400 · exact
Slug
oval-over-copiague-ny-2021-f9767f
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

  • Copiague, NY shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 192 reports came from New York in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.