Farmingdale, NY, USA
A witness near Farmingdale, New York reported a bright, oval-shaped object stationary in the sky above a jet factory for more than 30 minutes in 1954.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (150 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-08-01
- Where
- Farmingdale, NY, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30+min.
- Geo
- 40.733, -73.445 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-farmingdale-ny-1954-20ef3c
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
- Farmingdale, NY shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from New York in 1954.
- In the 1950s, 6.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.