CaseOval1987
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
above-city sighting of oval-shaped U.F.O. during meteor shower
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1987-07-21
- Where
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 60 Minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-1987-5c5cd4
In context
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY shows up 235 times across the archive.
- 17 reports came from New York in 1987.
- In the 1980s, 5.2% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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