Brooklyn, NY, NY, USA
Three or four glowing orbs in a straight line covered by a cloudy haze appeared for a few seconds then disappeared.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-10
- Where
- Brooklyn, NY, NY, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- A few seconds
- Geo
- 40.650, -73.950 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-brooklyn-ny-ny-2021-28ca7f
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 1 reports logged in Brooklyn, NY, NY.
- This case is one of 192 New York reports filed in 2021.
- Formation craft made up 5.2% of 2020s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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.