Freeport, NY, USA
Rocket-shaped object emitting sparks, making a sputtering noise and moving at 10-15 mph past the observer within 25' to 30'.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-02-10
- Where
- Freeport, NY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.658, -73.583 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-freeport-ny-1954-42ecb1
Part of a wave
The Great French Wave
France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America
The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Freeport, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 7 sightings in 1954.
- Other sightings ran at 6.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 6.9%).
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.