UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA

Red glowing orb of light. I noticed it outside my window living above the building next door. ((anonymous report))

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-25
Where
New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-new-york-city-manhattan-ny-2017-4714cc
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of New York City (Manhattan), NY in July 2017 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • New York City (Manhattan), NY has 111 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 187 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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