CaseFireball2002
Goshen, NY, USA
orange ball of light moving fast - 1 hour north of NYC - lasted only 1-2 secs before it disappeared - no engine noise !
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-01-18
- Where
- Goshen, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 secs
- Geo
- 41.402, -74.324 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-goshen-ny-2002-873cbc
In context
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Goshen, NY.
- This case is one of 155 New York reports filed in 2002.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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