CaseFireball1965
Grand Island, NY, USA
WE SAW A PERFECT VIEW OF THE KECKSBURG COMET.
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-12-09
- Where
- Grand Island, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- ~5 to 10 seconds
- Geo
- 43.033, -78.963 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-grand-island-ny-1965-ffc353
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In context
- Grand Island, NY has 11 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 20 reports from New York.
- The 1960s skewed 2.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.
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