CaseSphere2005

Stony Brook, NY, USA

Flying sphere hovering above us, shining light and then disappearing

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-06-30
Where
Stony Brook, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
seconds
Geo
40.926, -73.141 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-stony-brook-ny-2005-7c9f59
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…

In context

  • Stony Brook, NY shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 162 reports came from New York in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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