CaseDisk1974
Howard Beach, NY, USA
A report from Howard Beach, NY in May 1974 described a disk-shaped object sighted in broad daylight over Queens, lasting About 15 to 30 seconds.
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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (144 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-05-15
- Where
- Howard Beach, NY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- About 15 to 30 seconds
- Geo
- 40.658, -73.836 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-howard-beach-ny-1974-85a53c
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Howard Beach, NY.
- This case is one of 14 New York reports filed in 1974.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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