UFOMYST
CaseLight2021

Manhattan, NY, USA

Small distant stationary object that slowly flashed light

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2021-05-20
Where
Manhattan, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
6 minutes
Geo
40.783, -73.966 · exact
Slug
light-over-manhattan-ny-2021-31708f
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…

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In context

  • Manhattan, NY shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 192 reports came from New York in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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