CaseTriangle1998
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Object zig zagging east to west and stopping in distance turned out to be huge triangle with many lights when it flew directly overhead
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-15
- Where
- New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-1998-937832
In context
- New York City (Manhattan), NY has 111 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 71 reports from New York.
- The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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