UFOMYST
CaseOther2009

New York City, NY, USA

Cloud like ring shaped object in cloudless sky seen over Union Square park in New York

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-10-02
Where
New York City, NY, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
?
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
other-over-new-york-city-ny-2009-8f1d54
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

October 2009 was a busy month for New York City, NY: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 176 reports logged in New York City, NY.
  • This case is one of 206 New York reports filed in 2009.
  • Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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