UFOMYST
CaseLight2007

New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA

I just wanted to report that I saw a star like object in the night sky that could have been a red party balloon traveling southbound fa

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-09-16
Where
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 minute
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
light-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-2007-8847ef
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

  • New York City (Brooklyn), NY shows up 235 times across the archive.
  • 173 reports came from New York in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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