CaseUnknown2018

East Islip, NY, USA

Triangular UFO. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (15 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-09-21
Where
East Islip, NY, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15-20 minutes
Geo
40.732, -73.186 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-east-islip-ny-2018-282d5b
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

  • East Islip, NY shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 115 reports came from New York in 2018.

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.