CaseCircle1966

New York City (Bronx), NY, USA

Orb or throgsneck bridge.

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (25 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-30
Where
New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5-10 seconds
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
circle-over-new-york-city-bronx-ny-1966-71118d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

In context

  • New York City (Bronx), NY has 100 sightings on file here.
  • 1966 brought 13 reports from New York.
  • The 1960s skewed 10.1% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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