UFOMYST
CaseFireball2013

Cohoes, NY, USA

Driving Home on 4th of july and saw a red glowing fireball in the sky, stopped to take a video and snap a picture

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-04
Where
Cohoes, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
42.774, -73.700 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-cohoes-ny-2013-6c85e7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Cohoes, NY.
  • This case is one of 259 New York reports filed in 2013.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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