New York City, NY, USA
It was mat black and moved very slow West towards the Hudson River
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-10-15
- Where
- New York City, NY, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-new-york-city-ny-2007-1c2b93
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
New York City, NY logged 4 reports in the single month of October 2007.
In context
- One of 176 documented reports from New York City, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 173 sightings in 2007.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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