CaseSphere1958

Wantaugh, NY, USA

Illuminated ball with rods protruding. Silently moved east to west. Very low. About 40 feet off the ground.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1958-01-31
Where
Wantaugh, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
Slug
sphere-over-wantaugh-ny-1958-98b550

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Wantaugh, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 4 sightings in 1958.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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