UFOMYST
CaseChanging2006

New York City, NY, USA

At first we saw from our car one bright opalic light on a perfect clear sky. The shape was like a comet , being steady. We got to a hig

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-02-19
Where
New York City, NY, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
changing-over-new-york-city-ny-2006-c7a692
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

  • One of 176 documented reports from New York City, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 125 sightings in 2006.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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