CaseDisk2020

Plainview, NY, USA

On the evening of July 4, 2020 at just about 10:20 PM, appearing on the horizon we saw five extremely fast moving large bright orange l

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-04
Where
Plainview, NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
25 seconds
Geo
40.776, -73.467 · exact
Slug
disk-over-plainview-ny-2020-c32bfd
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • This is one of 10 reports logged in Plainview, NY.
  • This case is one of 292 New York reports filed in 2020.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2020s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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