Oval over New York City (Brooklyn), NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was like a giant black whole in the sky moving slowly from left to right
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2007-10-27 → 2007-11-13
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November 1, 2021 · 10:00 PM
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
I first noticed these lights over Brooklyn, NY on October 17, 2021 around 9:45 PM. They stayed absolutely still then flew off or disappeared after 20-30 minutes. I’m now seeing them again tonight on November 1 around 10 PM. They stayed there around 20-30 minutes, then disappeared. I believe I saw one light up brighter before disappearing completely. They seem to be changing colors, from red to green and orange, but it’s hard to tell unless you’re really zoomed in on your phone and taking a vid. Last time there were 5, tonight there were 4.
June 20, 2021 · 1:05 PM · LIGHT
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
Brilliant thin line shaped light in the distance, seen clearly on sunny day traversing slowly south to north in the vicinity of Brooklyn/Queens - size not determinable. Plenty of commercial air traffic in normal patterns operating throughout the area. Recorded short video of sighting on Android phone. After visual contact was lost behind building regained visual later and saw craft blink in and out of existence several times before contact was lost.
May 15, 2021 · 8:40 PM · CIRCLE
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
We were sitting in living room and looking outside. One of us point out the first orange object, wondering what it was. It had no flashing lights to indicate that it was a plane and had no a single sound. It flew at a medium pace from W to NE. It was at a low altitude. After it flew out of view we noticed that there were two more following it,coming from the same direction it originated from. They glowed orange and looked like a ball but when one of them turned out their glow we noticed it was actually shaped like a disc or saucer. Many more passed going in the same direction, not changing speed and in total we counted about 11. We thought of all possibilities but could not think of any technology that was open/known to man that could move like this. It was low, had NO sound at all and had no beacons to indicate that they needed to be seen by other aircrafts. It’s a Saturday night in Brooklyn so if people are on their roof it should be seen by other civilian! s.
April 22, 2021 · 10:23 PM · FIREBALL
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
At 22.23pm my mom and I witnessed an object in the sky in Brooklyn NYC. I saw it first it looked like a pulsating fireball very steady and silent. By the time my mom got her iphone out to record it started to move away in the distance. It left no trail. On the video I hear a continuous sound in the background but it was a very still and silent night. We have video that we can send in.
April 20, 2021 · 8:30 PM · FLASH
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
At approximately 8:30pm eastern time, I noticed a 1 pulsating light that was stationary in the western sky facing east. As I approached the window with phone to capture footage, the object began to move move towards my location facing east. Colors changing from red , white and green. Very bright. I was afraid the object noticed me by the movements it was making as if scanning the location. Then suddenly this object made a move toward the northern sky in a L shaped movement. Once it turned to change the direction it appeared to change into a object with 2 circular objects and the lights changed from a bright spot light to lights similar to an aircraft, as if mimicking an aircraft.
October 17, 2020 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
5:30 AM. It was dark (sunrise wasn’t until 7:09 AM). As I was getting cereal out of a cabinet near the kitchen window, I noticed a single, bright light that appeared to be rotating but staying approximately in the same place. I heard no sounds. There were only two visible stars (probably because of NYC light pollution, and because there was a bright security floodlight on a rooftop corner off to the left), and they were smaller, dimmer, unchanging, and not flickering. As I watched, I did see a much smaller blinking red light moving slowly in the sky toward the right edge and then out of my visual field, which looked like normal airplane activity—the contrast between this light and the brighter, larger stationary one served to affirm the uniqueness of the latter. I got my phone and recorded the light for about 45 seconds, unfortunately without raising the window screen because doing so is very noisy. I called my husband to the window (he is skeptical about th! is kind of thing) and asked him what he saw. He described what I described and said that the fact that the lighted object was stationary—not requiring propulsion to stay aloft, and clearly “spinning”—he couldn’t understand what it could possibly be. He left the room, and I went to the refrigerator for a second, and then turning back to look out the window, the light had completely disappeared. (What appears to be fast-moving light at the end of the video is actually my phone moving.) I wonder if anyone else saw this.