CaseTriangle2002
New York City, NY, USA
Triangular Starlike Object/Craft at the 2002 NYC 4th of July East River Fireworks
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-04
- Where
- New York City, NY, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-new-york-city-ny-2002-a7696b
In context
- New York City, NY has 176 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 155 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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