UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2005

Long Island City, NY, USA

At 11:12 I was watching a construction sight across the street from my window on the 22nd floor of 1 Court Square. I saw a large dull b

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-12-13
Where
Long Island City, NY, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
40.745, -73.949 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-long-island-city-ny-2005-537b21
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Long Island City, NY has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 162 reports from New York.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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