Merrick, NY, USA
Silent red light moved across the sky from south to north, changed course, and went off to the northwest.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-25
- Where
- Merrick, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.663, -73.552 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-merrick-ny-2015-b7ea7e
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
- Merrick, NY has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 301 reports from New York.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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