New York, NY, USA
Red and green lights on something moving in one direction, stopped, hovered, changed directions, stopped again, then flew out of sight.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-21
- Where
- New York, NY, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 40 seconds
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-new-york-ny-2013-50c9f7
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
- This is one of 54 reports logged in New York, NY.
- This case is one of 259 New York reports filed in 2013.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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