UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Southwick Beach State Park, NY, USA

Red/Orange Round Glowing Ball over Lake Ontario between Henderson and Sandy Creek at at Southwick Beach State Park. Did not move with w

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-02
Where
Southwick Beach State Park, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes (I saw)
Geo
—
Slug
fireball-over-southwick-beach-state-park-ny-2012-08bc2f
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Southwick Beach State Park, NY.
  • This case is one of 383 New York reports filed in 2012.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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