CaseFireball2011
Ithaca, NY, USA
I saw a fireball over ithaca
Report quality: Moderate54/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-10-24
- Where
- Ithaca, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4seconds
- Geo
- 42.441, -76.497 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-ithaca-ny-2011-90cfd6
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
- Ithaca, NY shows up 31 times across the archive.
- 251 reports came from New York in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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