UFOMYST
CaseFireball2014

Port Jefferson, NY, USA

Saw about ten bright orange red colored fireball lights in the sky over the harbor that hovered there for about 15 mins before dusappea

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-09-27
Where
Port Jefferson, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
40.946, -73.069 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-port-jefferson-ny-2014-ab8eab
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

  • Port Jefferson, NY shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 332 reports came from New York in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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