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CaseLight2011

Ocean Beach (Fire Island), NY, USA

4 orange lights low in the sky observed from Fire Island, NY. ((NUFORC Note: Witness include former Air Traffic Controller. PD))

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-10
Where
Ocean Beach (Fire Island), NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
40.647, -73.157 · exact
Slug
light-over-ocean-beach-fire-island-ny-2011-7f5b41
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…

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In context

  • Ocean Beach (Fire Island), NY has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 251 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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