New York City (over the Hudson), NY, USA
Huge Egg Shaped Glowing Hovering Behind Manhattan (Seen from Brooklyn: Bushwick Rooftop)
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-17
- Where
- New York City (over the Hudson), NY, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-new-york-city-over-the-hudson-ny-2016-85c304
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
- New York City (over the Hudson), NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 218 reports came from New York in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 0.7% of reports described a egg — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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