CaseFormation2003
New York City, NY, USA
Formation of moving lights over Manhattan
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-07-17
- Where
- New York City, NY, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 1/2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-new-york-city-ny-2003-46ad87
In context
- New York City, NY has 176 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 159 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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