CaseRectangle2017

New York City (Queens)(Flushing Meadows), NY, USA

Group of about 7 UFO's, with a leader to the side, and a cluster to its north.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-11
Where
New York City (Queens)(Flushing Meadows), NY, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-new-york-city-queens-flushing-meadows-ny-2017-5b1f0f
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…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from New York City (Queens)(Flushing Meadows), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 187 sightings in 2017.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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