CaseDisk2018

Staten Island, NY, USA

Shiny disc-shaped object.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (25 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-28
Where
Staten Island, NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.562, -74.140 · exact
Slug
disk-over-staten-island-ny-2018-4eeb0a
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

  • One of 65 documented reports from Staten Island, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 115 sightings in 2018.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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