Castleton on Hudson, NY, USA
White orange falling star turning to blue green as it descended. Northwest over Hudson River, Albany, NY
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-10-31
- Where
- Castleton on Hudson, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 sec
- Geo
- 42.518, -73.751 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-castleton-on-hudson-ny-2011-eadba7
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Castleton on Hudson, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 251 sightings in 2011.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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