CaseCircle2007

New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA

Strange light in Brooklyn

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (25 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-05-01
Where
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 sec
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
circle-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-2007-5ae55f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 New York City (Brooklyn), NY reports filed in May 2007.

In context

  • New York City (Brooklyn), NY shows up 235 times across the archive.
  • 173 reports came from New York in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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