CaseLight1997
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Strange lights above New York City
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-10
- Where
- New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-1997-e4679d
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- New York City (Manhattan), NY has 111 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 55 reports from New York.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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