Hyde Park, NY, USA
Driving north on rt 9g we witnessed a fireball going east to west..... the sun had not yet set.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-04-24
- Where
- Hyde Park, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- seconds
- Geo
- 41.785, -73.933 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hyde-park-ny-2005-38b764
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
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Hyde Park, NY.
- This case is one of 162 New York reports filed in 2005.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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