CaseDisk1973
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
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Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-11-15
- Where
- New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- several seconds
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-1973-3307f3
Wave
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- New York City (Manhattan), NY shows up 111 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from New York in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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