New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Cigar-shaped cylinder UFO and 4 smaller saucer spheres after it.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-16
- Where
- New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-2017-891d62
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…
Local cluster
New York City (Manhattan), NY logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2017.
In context
- One of 111 documented reports from New York City (Manhattan), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 187 sightings in 2017.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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