Queensbury, NY, USA
Giganticly huge glowing object. Very high in the sky, moving at high speed. Observed in night sky.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-12-22
- Where
- Queensbury, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.377, -73.613 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-queensbury-ny-2005-12935e
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Queensbury, NY shows up 11 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%.
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.