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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