CaseDisk1946

New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA

A witness in Brooklyn, New York reported a large, round, silver disk hovering over a neighbor's house with markings and a fire-like glow beneath it, observed for five minutes in January 1946.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (191 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1946-01-08
Where
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 min
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
disk-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-1946-6cc2e7
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In context

  • New York City (Brooklyn), NY has 235 sightings on file here.
  • 1946 brought 1 reports from New York.
  • The 1940s skewed 27.3% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

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