UFOMYST
CaseLight1978

Fort Drum, NY, USA

Large red light seen crossing the moon in a few seconds.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-01
Where
Fort Drum, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
Only 4 or 5 seconds
Geo
44.058, -75.762 · exact
Slug
light-over-fort-drum-ny-1978-2f06cd
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Fort Drum, NY.
  • This case is one of 24 New York reports filed in 1978.
  • Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.