UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Wading River, NY, USA

I saw a fireball go across the night sky from east to west; very fast, no noise, no trail.

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 (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-27
Where
Wading River, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
<1 minute
Geo
40.950, -72.843 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-wading-river-ny-2012-7fff08
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

  • Wading River, NY shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 383 reports came from New York in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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