CaseCircle1988
New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA
looking up clear as day a huge bright light, that resembled a mini sun.It was huge and I didnt see any particular shape or colors other
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-09-20
- Where
- New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 Minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-new-york-city-staten-island-ny-1988-dcbab9
In context
- One of 56 documented reports from New York City (Staten Island), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 20 sightings in 1988.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.2% during the 1980s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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