CaseFireball2002
Albany, NY, USA
An extremely bright white light zoomed past my window at 12:30AM July 24th.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-24
- Where
- Albany, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Geo
- 42.653, -73.756 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-albany-ny-2002-266353
In context
- Albany, NY shows up 70 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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