CaseDisk1974
New York, NY, USA
A report from New York, NY in June 1974 described a glowing, bi-convex, disk-shaped object that moved among the buildings of Manhattan in broad daylight, lasting 15 minutes.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (173 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-06-30
- Where
- New York, NY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-new-york-ny-1974-5def65
In context
- New York, NY shows up 54 times across the archive.
- 14 reports came from New York in 1974.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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