UFOMYST
CaseLight2004

New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA

Night-time sighting of UFO over Midtown NYC. ((NUFORC Note: Possible landing light on an airliner approaching local airport? PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-11-24
Where
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
0:45
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
light-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-2004-91b0c9
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 →

In context

  • New York City (Manhattan), NY shows up 111 times across the archive.
  • 183 reports came from New York in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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