UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Elmsford, NY, USA

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Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (20 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-30
Where
Elmsford, NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2min
Geo
41.055, -73.820 · exact
Slug
disk-over-elmsford-ny-1978-9d6fcc
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from Elmsford, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 24 sightings in 1978.
  • Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.