CaseLight2021

New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA

Thin, brilliant light moving slowly and then blinking in and out of existence before vanishing

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-06-20
Where
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
light-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-2021-24e5b6
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…

In context

  • One of 235 documented reports from New York City (Brooklyn), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 192 sightings in 2021.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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