CaseRectangle1999
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
saw object flying without sound about 2-3 hundred feet above water next to Varrazano Bridge
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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-03-13
- Where
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 30-40 sec
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-1999-51895a
In context
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY shows up 235 times across the archive.
- 110 reports came from New York in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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