UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

New York City (Queens), NY, USA

Saucer that looked like Star Trek minus the tale, clear and 100 feet away.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-30
Where
New York City (Queens), NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
disk-over-new-york-city-queens-ny-1978-33e349
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • New York City (Queens), NY shows up 52 times across the archive.
  • 24 reports came from New York in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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