CaseFireball2002
Albany, NY, USA
An incredible bright white orb sped past at an anormous rate heading east.
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 (74 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-c75691
In context
- This is one of 70 reports logged in Albany, NY.
- This case is one of 155 New York reports filed in 2002.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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