New York City, NY, USA
Upside down, it flew like that till it was even with me. It hovered for 20 sec., then it flipped over. Much more happened.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-15
- Where
- New York City, NY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-new-york-city-ny-2008-dd5702
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
- This is one of 176 reports logged in New York City, NY.
- This case is one of 213 New York reports filed in 2008.
- Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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