CaseSphere2003
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
I looked up and saw a sphere very high up over the Helmsley Palace Hotel...
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-10-28
- Where
- New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-2003-238c1a
In context
- This is one of 111 reports logged in New York City (Manhattan), NY.
- This case is one of 159 New York reports filed in 2003.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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