East Moriches, NY, USA
Star-like object stayed still for 5 minutes then desended and ascended up and down a few times before disappearing.
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-30
- Where
- East Moriches, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 40.805, -72.761 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-east-moriches-ny-2013-ce99f7
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
- East Moriches, NY has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 259 reports from New York.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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