CaseSphere1983
Oceanside, NY, USA
At first it was 2 lights, separate, but moving together. They both faded out, 1 lit up again. ((Starlink satellites?))
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1983-01-04
- Where
- Oceanside, NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 40.639, -73.640 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-oceanside-ny-1983-84c92a
In context
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Oceanside, NY.
- This case is one of 14 New York reports filed in 1983.
- Sphere craft made up 8.1% of 1980s reports, vs 6.5% 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.