CaseSphere1999
New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA
Round bright silver object w/ belt wobbled across the sky
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-08-28
- Where
- New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-new-york-city-staten-island-ny-1999-4270de
In context
- New York City (Staten Island), NY shows up 56 times across the archive.
- 110 reports came from New York in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 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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