UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2005

Forest Hills (Queens), NY, USA

Strange lights seen flying low in the NYC metro-area

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-12-05
Where
Forest Hills (Queens), NY, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
approx. 30 seconds
Geo
40.716, -73.850 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-forest-hills-queens-ny-2005-537103
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Forest Hills (Queens), NY shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 162 reports came from New York in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.