UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

New York, NY, USA

Steady well lit symetrical circle of lights

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-21
Where
New York, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
circle-over-new-york-ny-2020-0915e8
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • New York, NY has 54 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 292 reports from New York.
  • The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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