CaseOther2020

Plainview, NY, USA

5 other witnesses and I saw a glowing green figure 8 speeding past out house. With a military jet chasing it along with 3 military chop

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-08
Where
Plainview, NY, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
40.776, -73.467 · exact
Slug
other-over-plainview-ny-2020-4ca90a
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

  • Plainview, NY has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 292 reports from New York.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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