New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
Two bright, orange glowing orbs flying in formation at a steady speed to the Northeast, followed by a third glowing orb.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-10-27
- Where
- New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-new-york-city-bronx-ny-2012-bd68d7
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 New York City (Bronx), NY reports filed in October 2012.
In context
- New York City (Bronx), NY shows up 100 times across the archive.
- 383 reports came from New York in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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