West Islip, NY, USA
No sighting. Just an unexplainable swoosh of air as if a plane was going to crash. But then NOTHING!
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-01-13
- Where
- West Islip, NY, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 40.706, -73.306 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-west-islip-ny-2006-22c2a2
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
- This is one of 8 reports logged in West Islip, NY.
- This case is one of 125 New York reports filed in 2006.
Report
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