CaseDisk1961
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
In 1961, a witness in Brooklyn, New York City, reported a disk-shaped object with multicolored lights that made no noise, visible for about thirty seconds.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (155 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-08-15
- Where
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-1961-20fff4
In context
- This is one of 235 reports logged in New York City (Brooklyn), NY.
- This case is one of 4 New York reports filed in 1961.
- Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.