UFOMYST
CaseOval2010

New York City (Queens), NY, USA

Four oval shape lights in the sky (very large and bright) just over the clouds when it the skies became cloudy and windy on Maspeth.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-04-10
Where
New York City (Queens), NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
oval-over-new-york-city-queens-ny-2010-741df1
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…

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In context

  • New York City (Queens), NY shows up 52 times across the archive.
  • 180 reports came from New York in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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