CaseFormation2002
Shirley, NY, USA
I sighted 6 fiery lights in formation of the southern coast of Long Island while I was flying an airplane in the vicinity.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-25
- Where
- Shirley, NY, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 Minutes
- Geo
- 40.801, -72.868 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-shirley-ny-2002-f12609
In context
- One of 9 documented reports from Shirley, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 155 sightings in 2002.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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