UFOMYST
CaseCircle2021

Staten Island, NY, USA

Object at a standstill and then started moving. Object appeared to be falling then went back up higher and higher. The object then blin

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-17
Where
Staten Island, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
40.562, -74.140 · exact
Slug
circle-over-staten-island-ny-2021-24b89a
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

  • One of 65 documented reports from Staten Island, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 192 sightings in 2021.
  • Circle sightings ran at 11.9% during the 2020s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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