New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
My friends and I were sitting on the roof of a building and saw 6 rows of 6 stars in formation then did a 90 degree turn in formation
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-07-15
- Where
- New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-new-york-city-bronx-ny-1952-7ea952
Part of a wave
The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round
United States, focal point Washington D.C.
The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…
In context
- New York City (Bronx), NY shows up 100 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from New York in 1952.
- In the 1950s, 6.1% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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