CaseLight2004

Garden City, NY, USA

I saw a white light in the sky flare brightly, then dim, then flare again, less brightly, then disappear.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-12-25
Where
Garden City, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
40.727, -73.634 · exact
Slug
light-over-garden-city-ny-2004-c33ac7
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

  • One of 7 documented reports from Garden City, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 183 sightings in 2004.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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