Centereach, NY, USA
Lights that moved from one area to another area of the horizon, time span 7 to 10 minutes
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 510s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-26
- Where
- Centereach, NY, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- from 7 to 10 mins
- Geo
- 40.858, -73.100 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-centereach-ny-2012-3df641
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
- One of 8 documented reports from Centereach, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 383 sightings in 2012.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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