CaseDisk1969
Port Jefferson, NY, USA
A metallic disk-shaped object was reported hovering at high altitude above commercial air traffic near Port Jefferson, New York, for about an hour in August 1969.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (162 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-08-15
- Where
- Port Jefferson, NY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 40.946, -73.069 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-port-jefferson-ny-1969-178365
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Port Jefferson, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 11 sightings in 1969.
- Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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