CaseFireball2021
Brooklyn, NY, USA
I saw a green meteor like thing with a tail fall out of the sky
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-12-14
- Where
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 40.650, -73.950 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-brooklyn-ny-2021-ccaff7
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Brooklyn, NY has 13 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 192 reports from New York.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure 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.