UFOMYST
CaseCircle2015

New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA

Round-orange orb during fireworks NYC.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-07-04
Where
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
circle-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-2015-e68968
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

  • One of 111 documented reports from New York City (Manhattan), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 301 sightings in 2015.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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