CaseCircle1948
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
A witness in Brooklyn, New York reported a round, hovering craft over a neighbor's roof emitting a roaring sound and a fire-like glow beneath it, for about 10 minutes in August 1948.
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 (182 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1948-08-01
- Where
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-1948-0479df
In context
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY shows up 235 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from New York in 1948.
- In the 1940s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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