UFOMYST
CaseFlash2003

New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA

bronze sphere, flashed silver, looked like a black horizontal line when flash turned off. moved in straight line across sky.

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: 660s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2003-08-24
Where
New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
10-12 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
flash-over-new-york-city-staten-island-ny-2003-36cfa8

In context

  • One of 56 documented reports from New York City (Staten Island), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 159 sightings in 2003.
  • Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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