UFOMYST
CaseLight2015

New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA

UFO over Brooklyn, Dyker Heights -Bensonhurst 8/22/15, approx 9:20PM EST, reddish light, no strobe or flash and in 30 -45 seconds trave

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-08-22
Where
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
light-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-2015-72970c
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 235 reports logged in New York City (Brooklyn), NY.
  • This case is one of 301 New York reports filed in 2015.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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