Light over Mastic Beach, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Witnessed by me and brother, who was 1 mile away on cell phone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120812). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-07-29 → 2015-08-15
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September 4, 2022 · 10:18 PM · OTHER
Mastic Beach, NY
My girlfriend and I were sitting on my front porch and she observed a crescent-shaped light that was brighter in the front and dimmed as it moved through the sky, going West. It faded away as if it were going behind a building. She got my attention and I looked up from my phone. My phone was bright and it was dark, so it was hard for me to see. However, I saw what looked to be the moonlight behind the clouds, but if it were on a night where the moon were particularly orange. I looked away to let my eyes adjust to the night and looked back to discover that it was gone. I looked to my south-southwest to discover the moon in the sky. Whatever we saw was not the moon. I have an app on my phone, Flightradar24. It’s fairly self-explanatory but it is a flight radar. I’ve been able to track planes, public and private, as well as helicopters using this app for about two months with ease. If there’s a plane in the sky, I can tell you where it came from and, if it has a destination, where it’s going. I immediately checked this app to discover no nearby planes. No nearby helicopters. Nothing in the sky that was being picked up on the radar, not even a balloon (which I’ve also been able to see throughout the country.) Unfortunately, I was unable to get any pictures of this, but I wanted to report it in case anybody else saw it and decided to do the same thing.
January 12, 2020 · 6:57 PM · FIREBALL
Mastic Beach, NY
Fireball was hovering low outside my bedroom window, facing south. The fire started to move upward and then backward. The fireball moved slowly east in a up and down zigzag motion. I heard numerous car horns beeping in the distance. Lost sight of the fireball as it moved southeast. I have a video and the fireball was not shooting across the sky like a meteor. I called Suffolk County Police to make a report.
June 28, 2017 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Mastic Beach, NY
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 31, 2016 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Mastic Beach, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 10, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Mastic Beach, NY
Approximately 9pm, I spotted a reddish orange ball shaped object. "At first I thought is was a firework" but the object began to rise slowly from the ground in a diagonal direction. It rose about 300 feet or so and appeared to stop, then it slowly faded away to a speck. This was on the south side of Smith Point Park Beach. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 10, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Mastic Beach, NY
Approximately 9pm, I spotted a reddish orange ball shaped object. At first, I thought is was a firework, but the object began to rise slowly from the ground in a diagonal direction. It rose about 300 feet or so and appeared to stop, then it slowly faded away to a speck. This was on the south side of Smith Point Park Beach. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD