UFOMYST
CaseOval2016

Woodside, NY, USA

An enormous purple/indigo oval shaped light seen peering through the clouds. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-01-16
Where
Woodside, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.745, -73.905 · exact
Slug
oval-over-woodside-ny-2016-5795d2
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 3 documented reports from Woodside, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 218 sightings in 2016.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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