UFOMYST
CaseFireball1978

Chittenango, NY, USA

Red lights glaring over the sky of Town of Sullivan, Madison County, NY

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-04-06
Where
Chittenango, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Thursday Evening
Geo
43.045, -75.867 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-chittenango-ny-1978-5de672
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Chittenango, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 24 sightings in 1978.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 2.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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