CaseFireball2015

Raleigh, NY, USA

Bright orange fireball with no sound.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-06-14
Where
Raleigh, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
35.772, -78.639 · fallback
Slug
fireball-over-raleigh-ny-2015-d7f799
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…

In context

  • Raleigh, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 301 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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