UFOMYST
CaseSphere2008

Northport, NY, USA

Multiple sightings of a flashing bright white light flying in the tree line of the woods behind my yard this summer, 2008

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-06-28
Where
Northport, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.901, -73.343 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-northport-ny-2008-38f9a3
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 15 reports logged in Northport, NY.
  • This case is one of 213 New York reports filed in 2008.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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.