UFOMYST
CaseFireball2010

Gowanda, NY, USA

((HOAX??)) very fast fireballs,very scared.

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2010-01-20
Where
Gowanda, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
<5 sec.
Geo
42.463, -78.936 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-gowanda-ny-2010-6b9688
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 1 reports logged in Gowanda, NY.
  • This case is one of 180 New York reports filed in 2010.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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