CaseOther2003
Merrick, NY, USA
4 elliptical lit objects surrounded by a haze/halo, proceeding to individually dive, climb, zigzag. Lasted about 45 minutes.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-08-30
- Where
- Merrick, NY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 40.663, -73.552 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-merrick-ny-2003-bff864
In context
- Merrick, NY shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 159 reports came from New York in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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