Queens Village (Long Island), NY, USA
Stationary, hovering, bright light. ((anonymous report)) ((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of Mars? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (35 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2018-08-30
- Where
- Queens Village (Long Island), NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.727, -73.742 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-queens-village-long-island-ny-2018-d5f336
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
- Queens Village (Long Island), NY has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 115 reports from New York.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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