UFOMYST
CaseCircle2001

New York City, NY, USA

A diving white ball of light, headed North.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2001-09-16
Where
New York City, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 second
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
circle-over-new-york-city-ny-2001-f95beb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2001

    NY flap 2001-09

    NY, USA

    15 sightings in geohash dr5r (NY) during 2001 peak months 9–9; top shape light

    15 reportsOpen wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

September 2001 was a busy month for New York City, NY: 8 separate reports.

Flap

NY flap 2001-09

One of 15 sightings that make up the NY flap 2001-09.

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In context

  • This is one of 176 reports logged in New York City, NY.
  • This case is one of 152 New York reports filed in 2001.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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