UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

New York City (Middle Village) (Queens), NY, USA

Red/Orange fireball in sky over South shore of Long Island New York

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-04
Where
New York City (Middle Village) (Queens), NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-new-york-city-middle-village-queens-ny-2012-0388d4
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from New York City (Middle Village) (Queens), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 383 sightings in 2012.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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