CaseFireball2020

Waterville, NY, USA

Green fireball skating between clouds and trees. Straight line trajectory. VERY BROUGHT. Lit up the whole sky.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-03-24
Where
Waterville, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Seconds
Geo
42.931, -75.380 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-waterville-ny-2020-0a4bdd
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…

In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Waterville, NY.
  • This case is one of 292 New York reports filed in 2020.
  • Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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