CaseFireball2002
West Sand Lake, NY, USA
Bright orange plasma like ship
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-10
- Where
- West Sand Lake, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15
- Geo
- 42.643, -73.609 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-west-sand-lake-ny-2002-437695
In context
- West Sand Lake, NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 155 reports came from New York in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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