CaseFireball2020
Utica, NY, USA
3 huge fireballs change direction. Video footage in description
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-20
- Where
- Utica, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minutes
- Geo
- 43.101, -75.233 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-utica-ny-2020-cc183b
Wave
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
- Utica, NY shows up 48 times across the archive.
- 292 reports came from New York in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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