CaseFormation2015
Long Beach (Long Island), NY, USA
Cluster of orange lights in the western sky, toward NYC.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-04-14
- Where
- Long Beach (Long Island), NY, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 40.588, -73.658 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-long-beach-long-island-ny-2015-2879c2
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Long Beach (Long Island), NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 301 reports came from New York in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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