UFOMYST
CaseDisk2010

New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA

Flying saucer making possible telepathic contact and the sacer made a noise. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. Hoax?? PD))

Report quality: Low5/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2010-05-19
Where
New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
disk-over-new-york-city-staten-island-ny-2010-cd5aa8
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 56 documented reports from New York City (Staten Island), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 180 sightings in 2010.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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