CaseFireball2021
New Paltz, NY, USA
A large fireball was observed in the middle distance
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-11-01
- Where
- New Paltz, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 41.748, -74.087 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-new-paltz-ny-2021-d1b1a6
Wave
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
- New Paltz, NY has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 192 reports from New York.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% 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.