CaseFireball2005
Basom, NY, USA
fireball
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (8 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-12
- Where
- Basom, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 43.067, -78.391 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-basom-ny-2005-f58c14
Wave
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
- Basom, NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 162 reports came from New York in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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