CaseFlash2007
Islip, NY, USA
Flash of Light Shape, UFO?
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (26 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-11-26
- Where
- Islip, NY, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- few minutes
- Geo
- 40.730, -73.210 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-islip-ny-2007-5cbb40
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Islip, NY has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 173 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
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.