CaseLight2018

Queens Village (Long Island), NY, USA

Stationary, hovering, bright light. ((anonymous report)) ((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of Mars? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2018-08-30
Where
Queens Village (Long Island), NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
40.727, -73.742 · exact
Slug
light-over-queens-village-long-island-ny-2018-d5f336
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

  • Queens Village (Long Island), NY has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 115 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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