CaseOther2011

Staten Island, NY, USA

After a closer look and seeing the moon was in the opposite sky as where this was, and planes flying what looked to be way under it, i

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2011-10-09
Where
Staten Island, NY, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
At least a half hour
Geo
40.562, -74.140 · exact
Slug
other-over-staten-island-ny-2011-778c4e
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

  • This is one of 65 reports logged in Staten Island, NY.
  • This case is one of 251 New York reports filed in 2011.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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