CaseLight1955
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
A witness in Brooklyn, New York reported two bright, star-like lights moving silently from south to north at high speed around 7 p.m., for about five minutes in February 1955.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (175 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1955-02-15
- Where
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 MINUTES
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-1955-d119d6
In context
- This is one of 235 reports logged in New York City (Brooklyn), NY.
- This case is one of 2 New York reports filed in 1955.
- Light craft made up 11.5% of 1950s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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