UFOMYST
CaseCross2009

New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA

The UFO was a cross with nine lights and was seen in Mannhattan , New York.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-12-14
Where
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Shape
Cross
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
cross-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-2009-7be3ef
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 111 documented reports from New York City (Manhattan), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 206 sightings in 2009.
  • Cross sightings ran at 0.3% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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