Unspecified over Long Island, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
THE LIGHTS WE ALL SAW OVER LONG ISLAND TONIGHT WERE ONLY CHINESE LANTERNS THAT WERE LET GO FOR A CEREMONY HELD IN CONNECTIQUOT STATE PA
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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December 25, 2020 · 8:29 PM · DISK
Long Island, NY
We were driving down the Long Island Expressway still in Nassau County driving East into Suffolk County, and half joking/half confused, my husband said look it’s a UFO. I looked up, and I start shaking I have never in my life seen something so enormous & clear. It looked like it was out of a movie, it took me a while to start taking because I was so nervous, so the camera footage is when we had moved some distance away. It was foggy & windy, but so clearly the shape was an upper circular dome and a lower circular dome then a huge flat circular disk around it. There was lights around the entire disk and then a bright one on the top of the upper dome. The bottom dome had a red light that was explosive & twice the bottom seemed to explode with red light and a strong fat light beam would shoot from the bottom then suck itself back in. Almost like a huge smoke cloud explosion that shoots in a straight beam then back in as if someone was rewinding it back in. It’s! so hard to explain. And it traveled very level with me the whole time I taped and eventually we kept driving it drifted into the fog. The shape, size, light activity, structure, beam are nothing I have ever seen in my entire lift!!! The ufo shape & beam are very clearly seen in the beginning of the video and half a second after the 12 second mark, the entire thing explodes with light and the whole structure can be seen.
September 21, 2020 · 5:36 AM · FIREBALL
Long Island, NY
At aproximatly 5:36 am there was a bright flash in the south of the sky that then streamed down with a fireball look. Possibly a meteor/fireball. PD
October 1, 2016 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Long Island, NY
My friend and I were sitting in my car when I looked up into the sky and witnessed 3 floating red orange orbs at first I thought it was a flying lantern but when I realized it was intelligent by the way the 3 orbs moved I alarmed my friend and pointed to the direction to confirm what I was seeing. The 3 fireballs floated in a single line about a couple thousand feet above the ground, then started to move foward and disappeared into the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 4, 2002 · 3:45 PM · EGG
Long Island, NY
I was driving east on hemstead turnpike approaching farmingdale and I looked up in the sky and saw a trail, pretty fat trail in the sh