Syosset, NY, USA
Long Island Expressway, Syosset Exit 43 - Burning Red/Orange Ferris Wheel??
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-04
- Where
- Syosset, NY, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 40.826, -73.502 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-syosset-ny-2013-e45012
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Syosset, NY.
- This case is one of 259 New York reports filed in 2013.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% 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.