UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1997

New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA

Metallic Cylinder Moving thru New York Harbor

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-15
Where
New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 minutes?
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-new-york-city-staten-island-ny-1997-9e6ca0
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 56 documented reports from New York City (Staten Island), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 55 sightings in 1997.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.4% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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