CaseFormation2021

Staten Island New York, NY, USA

3 craft in formation fly by the do a 180 phasing in and out of visibility I have a video.

Report quality: Low39/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-08-03
Where
Staten Island New York, NY, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1:43
Geo
Slug
formation-over-staten-island-new-york-ny-2021-a713f6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Staten Island New York, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 192 reports from New York.
  • The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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