Lindenhurst, NY, USA
8/27/05 at 11:00 pm friend and i was talking,sky was clear,saw falling star,then it just stoped short in the sky,then zig zaged.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-27
- Where
- Lindenhurst, NY, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.687, -73.373 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-lindenhurst-ny-2005-8a59d7
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
- One of 17 documented reports from Lindenhurst, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 162 sightings in 2005.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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