During the summer of 1967 residents of Long Island New York reported a series of unusual aerial phenomena.

On several evenings bright white lights appeared in the night sky performing maneuvers that defied explanation by contemporary aviation technology.

Witnesses described the objects hovering motionless for minutes before accelerating at impossible speeds and executing ninety degree turns without any visible means of propulsion.

Police departments in Nassau and Suffolk counties received multiple calls from concerned citizens who feared the lights might be aircraft in distress.

No corresponding flight plans or military exercises were logged for those dates.

Local newspapers covered the sightings extensively noting the consistency of descriptions across unrelated observers.

The events remain one of the better documented multi witness light displays from that decade in the northeastern United States.