CaseOval1988
Old Bethpage, NY, USA
Mass Sighting over Long Island; 50 thousand calls to 911.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-08-01
- Where
- Old Bethpage, NY, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.763, -73.453 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-old-bethpage-ny-1988-f53b28
In context
- Old Bethpage, NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 20 reports came from New York in 1988.
- In the 1980s, 5.2% 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.