UFOMYST
CaseSphere2020

Staten island, NY, USA

Orange globe ufo in NYC sky

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (27 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-11-14
Where
Staten island, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
20mins
Geo
40.562, -74.140 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-staten-island-ny-2020-754770
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 65 reports logged in Staten island, NY.
  • This case is one of 292 New York reports filed in 2020.
  • Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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