Old Field, NY, USA
On the beach N of West Meadow Beach, we saw five incidences of an orange light being launched into the sky over Smithtown Bay.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-07
- Where
- Old Field, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 40.960, -73.130 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-old-field-ny-2015-6f8a4c
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
- Old Field, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 301 reports from New York.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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