Long Island, NY, USA
Mid afternoon1970 to 1976, not really know the exact year, we was driving with father-mother-sister + I saw a square silver shaped huge
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-06-30
- Where
- Long Island, NY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.817, -73.066 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-long-island-ny-1973-dfe268
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- Long Island, NY shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from New York in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 6.5% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 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.