Island Park, NY, USA
One fireball floating slowly up and down in the sky a circle with fire in it my husband and I both saw it
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 (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-23
- Where
- Island Park, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 mins
- Geo
- 40.604, -73.655 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-island-park-ny-2011-928744
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Island Park, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 251 sightings in 2011.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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