UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2004

New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA

we were stood outside and it came and went

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-12-05
Where
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
—
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-2004-0a6aac
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • New York City (Manhattan), NY has 111 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 183 reports from New York.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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