CaseFireball1999
Albany, NY, USA
At about 16:00 myself and a co-woker went outside for a cig break when I looked to the sky and saw what looked like an orange fireball
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Albany, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-4min
- Geo
- 42.653, -73.756 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-albany-ny-1999-3efca8
In context
- Albany, NY has 70 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 110 reports from New York.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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