UFOMYST
CaseLight2011

New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA

I saw a brilliant white light moving. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that the object was the International Space Station. PD))

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-06-29
Where
New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 sec to a min
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
light-over-new-york-city-staten-island-ny-2011-abd5d4
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

  • New York City (Staten Island), NY shows up 56 times across the archive.
  • 251 reports came from New York in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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