UFOMYST
CaseFireball2014

Staten Island, NY, USA

The orange red fireball looking UFO flew over the sky as it was just getting dark.It was flying faster than a airplane and was moving b

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-07-27
Where
Staten Island, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
40.562, -74.140 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-staten-island-ny-2014-f2924f
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Staten Island, NY in July 2014 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Staten Island, NY has 65 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 332 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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