UFOMYST
CaseSphere2001

New York City, NY, USA

sphere floating above NY vanishes after bright flash

Report quality: Moderate66/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2001-09-11
Where
New York City, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 hour
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-new-york-city-ny-2001-0419e8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2001

    NY flap 2001-09

    NY, USA

    15 sightings in geohash dr5r (NY) during 2001 peak months 9–9; top shape light

    15 reportsOpen wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

8 reports came out of New York City, NY in September 2001 alone — a local cluster.

Flap

NY flap 2001-09

Logged as part of the NY flap 2001-09, a 15-report space-time cluster.

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In context

  • New York City, NY has 176 sightings on file here.
  • 2001 brought 152 reports from New York.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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