CaseFormation2002
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Formation of moving lights over Manhattan
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-12-01
- Where
- New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-2002-946f53
In context
- New York City (Manhattan), NY shows up 111 times across the archive.
- 155 reports came from New York in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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