UFOMYST
CaseFireball2021

Syracuse, NY, USA

“Fireball” of green light, vertically descending then rapidly leveling to fly horizontally and disappearing like a light switch snapped

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2021-12-15
Where
Syracuse, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
43.048, -76.147 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-syracuse-ny-2021-cab5c1
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

Syracuse, NY logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2021.

In context

  • One of 86 documented reports from Syracuse, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 192 sightings in 2021.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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