9 Aug 1965 - Long Island, New York, USA
9 August 1965 18:00
Long Island, New York, USA

Five witnesses, including a professional astronomer, see a daytime disc for five minutes.

One saucer was observed by five witnesses for five minutes.

Hynek summarized:

The sighting was made just after sunset, but the clear sky was still starless. The report stated that the object had lights as well as a disc shape, indicating, perhaps, that here we have a transition case between the Nocturnal Light and the Daylight Disc. The trajectories and kinematics of the two categories are strikingly similar, perhaps suggesting that Nocturnal Lights are Daylight Discs seen at night and that, therefore, the distinction between the two categories is purely observational.

The observer, accompanied by his wife, her friend, and two children, was traveling eastward at 30 miles per hour. They noticed "a silvery, disc-shaped object heading slowly south. The bottom of the object had a ring of bluish white lights, which made the object appear to rotate." The object subtended an angle of two to three degrees and was topped by a white light.

After moving slightly to the south of us, the object rapidly accelerated in an east-northeast direction .... We moved onto a high speed highway still heading east, but now at 70 to 80 miles per hour. The object quickly became a white starlike object far to the east of us. It appeared to move five to ten degrees up and down for about five minutes. Then the object rapidly moved to the south, disappearing over the Atlantic Ocean.


Hynek rating: DD: Daylight Discs
Vallee rating: FB1: A simple sighting of a UFO traveling in a straight line across the sky.
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