Staten Island, NY, USA
Surprised a UFO that was hovering silently above me, then it shot away.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-03
- Where
- Staten Island, NY, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 40.562, -74.140 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-staten-island-ny-2017-ade972
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…
In context
- One of 65 documented reports from Staten Island, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 187 sightings in 2017.
- Diamond sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.4%).
Report
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