Disk over Long Island, NY

The report, as filed

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.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #161308). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.