CaseLight2022

New York City, NY, USA

I took 4 pics of the Empire state building while waiting for a green light - next day I noticed 6 orbs in 2 pics in different positions

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-02-04
Where
New York City, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
~20 seconds
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
light-over-new-york-city-ny-2022-ddb451
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

  • New York City, NY shows up 176 times across the archive.
  • 54 reports came from New York in 2022.
  • In the 2020s, 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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