Rochester, NY, USA
Two bright orange balls of light that moved quickly around each other, then suspended, then slowly, one by one, disappeared from view
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-15
- Where
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 min.
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rochester-ny-2009-b9a363
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
- Rochester, NY shows up 139 times across the archive.
- 206 reports came from New York in 2009.
- 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.