CaseOther2011

Staten Island, NY, USA

It was a quick beam of silvery light tjatshot across the sky.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-08-12
Where
Staten Island, NY, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
40.562, -74.140 · exact
Slug
other-over-staten-island-ny-2011-a5859d
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

  • Staten Island, NY shows up 65 times across the archive.
  • 251 reports came from New York in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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