CaseLight1998
Plainview, NY, USA
we saw a sphere of light move steadily across the sky. Then it zig-zagged. It changed from whit to faint blue and flashed. It then ping
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-13
- Where
- Plainview, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1-2 min
- Geo
- 40.776, -73.467 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-plainview-ny-1998-b53fb1
In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Plainview, NY.
- This case is one of 71 New York reports filed in 1998.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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