CaseLight2022

Port Jefferson, NY, USA

A round ball of light whizzed past me in the early morning

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-04-18
Where
Port Jefferson, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.946, -73.069 · exact
Slug
light-over-port-jefferson-ny-2022-c16f64
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Port Jefferson, NY shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 54 reports came from New York in 2022.
  • In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

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.