CaseOval1958
New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
7 brightly illuminated elliptical discs racing uniformly across the night sky were seen moving NNW to SSE equally spaced apart.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1958-06-01
- Where
- New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-new-york-city-bronx-ny-1958-e8cf68
In context
- This is one of 100 reports logged in New York City (Bronx), NY.
- This case is one of 4 New York reports filed in 1958.
- Oval craft made up 6.1% of 1950s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.