UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1998

New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA

Strangely moving craft, zigzagging in the distance that turned out to be a huge triangle with lots of lights when it flew overhead..

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1998-05-01
Where
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 - 10 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-1998-c35c63

In context

  • One of 111 documented reports from New York City (Manhattan), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 71 sightings in 1998.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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