New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Did anyone see a very strange object flying above New York City on October 2, 2005? I have pictures
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-02
- Where
- New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-2005-b816c4
Part of a wave
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
- One of 111 documented reports from New York City (Manhattan), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 162 sightings in 2005.
- Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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