CaseCircle1963

New York City (Richmond Hills) (Queens), NY, USA

A witness in the Richmond Hill section of Queens, New York reported a circular object moving in a zig-zag pattern before rapidly ascending out of sight, October 1963, lasting a few seconds.

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (189 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1963-10-03
Where
New York City (Richmond Hills) (Queens), NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
a couple seconds
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
circle-over-new-york-city-richmond-hills-queens-ny-1963-b342c4

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from New York City (Richmond Hills) (Queens), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 7 sightings in 1963.
  • Circle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 1960s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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