CaseSphere2003
New York City, NY, USA
Manhattan skyline UFO on night of the blackout ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Mars?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2003-08-14
- Where
- New York City, NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-new-york-city-ny-2003-7c4cce
In context
- This is one of 176 reports logged in New York City, 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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