UFOMYST
CaseSphere2008

Stony Brook, NY, USA

((HOAX??)) Mysterious flying object appears around an engineering building.

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (64 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-11-17
Where
Stony Brook, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.926, -73.141 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-stony-brook-ny-2008-45b4de
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…

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In context

  • Stony Brook, NY has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 213 reports from New York.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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