Port Jefferson, NY, USA
Glowing orange objects, which you could see were round disk/sphere in shape when glow dimmed completely.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-04
- Where
- Port Jefferson, NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 minutes or so total
- Geo
- 40.946, -73.069 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-port-jefferson-ny-2008-e53b19
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Port Jefferson, NY has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 213 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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