Watertown, NY, USA
moving north to south slowly, orange glowing ball shaped, very bright. Passed directly overhead at aprox 200ft no sound. Turned right a
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-04
- Where
- Watertown, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 43.975, -75.911 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-watertown-ny-2019-934446
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
- This is one of 17 reports logged in Watertown, NY.
- This case is one of 192 New York reports filed in 2019.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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