CaseSphere1958
Wantaugh, NY, USA
A witness in Wantagh, New York reported an illuminated, sphere-shaped object with protruding rods moving silently east to west at about 40 feet altitude, for about five minutes in January 1958.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (193 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
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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%).
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