Staten Island, NY, USA
12 cone-shaped flying objects with a strange orange/red glow and some with flashing lights. They were flying inline towards Atlantic.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-12-20
- Where
- Staten Island, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.562, -74.140 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-staten-island-ny-2014-635db8
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Staten Island, NY reports filed in December 2014.
In context
- Staten Island, NY shows up 65 times across the archive.
- 332 reports came from New York in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 0.4% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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