New York City, NY, USA
I was driving home one night at 2:15 am after work with a friend. We were going over the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan and about half
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-11-20
- Where
- New York City, NY, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-new-york-city-ny-2006-021175
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- New York City, NY has 176 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 125 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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