CaseOther1996
Fire Island (Long Island), NY, USA
Fire Island up close encounter with a 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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-10-06
- Where
- Fire Island (Long Island), NY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 45 MINUTES
- Geo
- 40.648, -73.146 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-fire-island-long-island-ny-1996-77479b
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Fire Island (Long Island), NY.
- This case is one of 28 New York reports filed in 1996.
- Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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