CaseTeardrop2020

Middle Village, NY, USA

Saw very bright lights being totally stationary and not moving above my place here in Queens N.Y.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-16
Where
Middle Village, NY, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
Still There
Geo
40.716, -73.881 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-middle-village-ny-2020-cc4b49
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 has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 292 reports from New York.
  • The 2020s skewed 0.6% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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