Albany, NY, USA
((HOAX??)) fatersday night we were outside lookin at the sky my daughter says whats that we all look in the sky and see a light
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2011-06-19
- Where
- Albany, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.653, -73.756 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-albany-ny-2011-40a4c5
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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In context
- This is one of 70 reports logged in Albany, NY.
- This case is one of 251 New York reports filed in 2011.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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