CaseTriangle2017

Astoria, NY, USA

Looking out 5th floor apartment window in Astoria, Queens which overlooks the East River and Manhattan's Skyline. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-10-20
Where
Astoria, NY, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.772, -73.930 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-astoria-ny-2017-0a75db
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…

In context

  • Astoria, NY has 14 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 187 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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