CaseFireball1974
Rochester, NY, USA
A report from Rochester, NY in June 1974 described a very large, silent fireball with no visible smoke trail, lasting 3 seconds.
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-06-30
- Where
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rochester-ny-1974-d52595
In context
- One of 139 documented reports from Rochester, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 14 sightings in 1974.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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