UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

West Islip, NY, USA

This was peculiar to say the least. We had just returned from a day trip to Fire Island and I was on my back porch (lived basically nex

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-08
Where
West Islip, NY, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.706, -73.306 · exact
Slug
other-over-west-islip-ny-1997-33387f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

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In context

  • West Islip, NY shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 55 reports came from New York in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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