New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
Orange Oval Shape like a ball of fire moving from Manhattan toward Staten Island Area, ((anonymous report))
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-27
- Where
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-2017-d17abf
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY has 235 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 187 reports from New York.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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