UFOMYST
CaseLight2007

New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA

Large, bright, comet-like object seen disintegrating over Upper East Side of Manhattan near 85th Street and 3rd Avenue.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-06-05
Where
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
light-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-2007-f5a216
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.
  • 173 reports came from New York in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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