CaseDisk1978
Lynbrook, NY, USA
It was a solid object with lights going around the middle of the object.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-06-01
- Where
- Lynbrook, NY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.655, -73.672 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-lynbrook-ny-1978-313bfd
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Lynbrook, NY.
- This case is one of 24 New York reports filed in 1978.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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.