New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
Formation of lights moving at a plane like pace-dimmer ones leading brighter ones
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-07-31
- Where
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1+hours
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-2006-8fe23b
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…
Local cluster
July 2006 was a busy month for New York City (Brooklyn), NY: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 235 reports logged in New York City (Brooklyn), NY.
- This case is one of 125 New York reports filed in 2006.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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