CaseFireball1997

Paramus (souh of), NJ, USA

Large white fireball over New York City

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-01
Where
Paramus (souh of), NJ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
minutes
Geo
40.945, -74.075 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-paramus-souh-of-nj-1997-614f56
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • Paramus (souh of), NJ shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 24 reports came from New Jersey in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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