New York City, NY, USA
12:11am small greenish streak moving very fast through the sky over Lower Manhattan, traveling west
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-31
- Where
- New York City, NY, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-new-york-city-ny-2009-86a500
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
- New York City, NY shows up 176 times across the archive.
- 206 reports came from New York in 2009.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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