UFOMYST
CaseSphere2016

Slate Hill, NY, USA

Hovering UFO is observed multiple times in Slate Hill, NY. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a "twinkling" star. PD))

Report quality: Low28/100

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: 432000s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-10-06
Where
Slate Hill, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 days
Geo
41.391, -74.477 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-slate-hill-ny-2016-e1242d
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

  • Slate Hill, NY shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 218 reports came from New York in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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