UFOMYST
CaseFireball2005

New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA

I'm a high school student around 16. I would like to say that I was witness to another sighting, that appeared on ABC News, the one tha

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-02-02
Where
New York City (Brooklyn), NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5-10 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-new-york-city-brooklyn-ny-2005-e241ed
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • New York City (Brooklyn), NY shows up 235 times across the archive.
  • 162 reports came from New York in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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.