UFOMYST
CaseDisk1977

Staten Island, NY, USA

A round object moving slowly and silently with clusters of light resembling diamonds spinning around and around .

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-07-01
Where
Staten Island, NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
40.562, -74.140 · exact
Slug
disk-over-staten-island-ny-1977-608ac6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 65 documented reports from Staten Island, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 17 sightings in 1977.
  • Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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