UFOMYST
CaseFormation2007

New York City, NY, USA

3 to 13 UFOs over Citibank building in Queens NYC in formation for about 20minutes. ((NUFORC Note: Possible 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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (83 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
2007-10-24
Where
New York City, NY, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
formation-over-new-york-city-ny-2007-bed38f
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of New York City, NY in October 2007 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • New York City, NY has 176 sightings on file here.
  • 2007 brought 173 reports from New York.
  • The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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