CaseUnknown1996
Watkins Glen, NY, USA
Six teenagers on hill witness a BRIGHT ball of fire w/ a green/yellow trail streak across the sky. Covered 110 degrees in 3 seconds.
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-11-16
- Where
- Watkins Glen, NY, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 sec.
- Geo
- 42.381, -76.873 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-watkins-glen-ny-1996-45e942
In context
- Watkins Glen, NY has 11 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 28 reports from New York.
Report
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