CaseOther2016

Middle Village, NY, USA

Bright object arched path across dark sky.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-22
Where
Middle Village, NY, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.716, -73.881 · exact
Slug
other-over-middle-village-ny-2016-5ea2b6
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

  • Middle Village, NY shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 218 reports came from New York in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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