CaseCircle1986
Lido Beach, NY, USA
The Object was above our car hovering. We didn't see it move towards us ...it was just there in an instance.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-01-16
- Where
- Lido Beach, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 40.589, -73.625 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lido-beach-ny-1986-4fd98c
In context
- Lido Beach, NY has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1986 brought 10 reports from New York.
- The 1980s skewed 8.2% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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