Fair Haven, NY, USA
Orange light which traversed the starlite sky from due south to due north
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-09-11
- Where
- Fair Haven, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 min.
- Geo
- 42.769, -76.268 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fair-haven-ny-2004-0ef4c0
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Fair Haven, NY.
- This case is one of 183 New York reports filed in 2004.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.