New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
A square shaped object approached the Verrazano Bridge from the north, turned left, and eventually disappeared.
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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-14
- Where
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 30 to 45 seconds
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-2006-b125a8
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
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY shows up 235 times across the archive.
- 125 reports came from New York in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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