New York City (Queens), NY, USA
30-40 orbs sighted moving through cloud cover in Queens NY
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-01
- Where
- New York City (Queens), NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-new-york-city-queens-ny-2016-c7daa0
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of New York City (Queens), NY in March 2016 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- New York City (Queens), NY has 52 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 218 reports from New York.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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