CaseFireball2002
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
Metallic Ball on Fire No Trails Enters Cloud But Does Not Exit Cloud
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-06-01
- Where
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-2002-4e4b1d
In context
- New York City (Brooklyn), NY shows up 235 times across the archive.
- 155 reports came from New York in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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