CaseSphere2003
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Silverly helium balloon-like object
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (35 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-05-29
- Where
- New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-2003-a0196a
In context
- New York City (Manhattan), NY shows up 111 times across the archive.
- 159 reports came from New York in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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