Staten Island, NY, USA
It was in the sky away from any buildings or light, I have seen it from my balcony I am on the top floor. I have seen one, it would van
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-03-01
- Where
- Staten Island, NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 40.562, -74.140 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-staten-island-ny-2020-ce138e
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…
In context
- Staten Island, NY shows up 65 times across the archive.
- 292 reports came from New York in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.