Staten Island, NY, USA
Red dots, followed by red clear orb, followed by more red dots.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-12-18
- Where
- Staten Island, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.562, -74.140 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-staten-island-ny-2014-c443d6
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…
Local cluster
Staten Island, NY logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2014.
In context
- One of 65 documented reports from Staten Island, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 332 sightings in 2014.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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