UFOMYST
CaseCircle2008

Riverhead, NY, USA

I was driving on the LIE with my daughter heading west. The night was very clear. I looked up and saw a large bright round light just

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-01-18
Where
Riverhead, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
40.917, -72.662 · exact
Slug
circle-over-riverhead-ny-2008-05eab1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Riverhead, NY has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 213 reports from New York.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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