UFOMYST
CaseFireball1978

Albany, NY, USA

Orange fireball

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (15 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-21
Where
Albany, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
42.653, -73.756 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-albany-ny-1978-51306c
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Albany, NY shows up 70 times across the archive.
  • 24 reports came from New York in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.