CaseFlash2019
New York City, NY, USA
Sphere shape flashes in the sky with colorful trail behind it.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-07-24
- Where
- New York City, NY, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-new-york-city-ny-2019-03ce56
Wave
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, NY has 176 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 192 reports from New York.
- The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.