Carlisle, NY, USA
A witness in Carlisle, New York reported a slow-moving fireball accompanied by a smell resembling burning sulfur, observed for under one minute in June 1990.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (157 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1990-06-30
- Where
- Carlisle, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- less than 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.757, -74.446 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-carlisle-ny-1990-d28213
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- Carlisle, NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from New York in 1990.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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