CaseSphere2015

Melville, NY, USA

Intertwing globles of bright white and golden light, moving rapidly in circular motion. Large easily seen.

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-05-19
Where
Melville, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
still there
Geo
40.793, -73.415 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-melville-ny-2015-2d17f0
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…

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Melville, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 301 sightings in 2015.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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