CaseFireball2001
Lake Placid (near), NY, USA
i saw a streek of fire in the night sky
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-15
- Where
- Lake Placid (near), NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15sec
- Geo
- 44.280, -73.982 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lake-placid-near-ny-2001-4fad65
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Lake Placid (near), NY.
- This case is one of 152 New York reports filed in 2001.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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