New York City, NY, USA
White round light with no movement and no sound over the Hudson River viewable from the W. 60's in Manhattan
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-10-15
- Where
- New York City, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-new-york-city-ny-2021-5a4cea
Part of a wave
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
- One of 176 documented reports from New York City, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 192 sightings in 2021.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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