New York City (Queens/Whitestone), NY, USA
I was sitting in my yard looking in an easterly direction, when I noticed an unidentified object moving in a northeasterly direction at
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-05-28
- Where
- New York City (Queens/Whitestone), NY, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 15 secs
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-new-york-city-queens-whitestone-ny-2011-567e12
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
- New York City (Queens/Whitestone), NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 251 reports came from New York in 2011.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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