UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Middletown, NY, USA

After witnessing one, my daughter and I now seen two red firey bright lights with lighter red trails glowing around them, slowly moving

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-09-16
Where
Middletown, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
41.446, -74.423 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-middletown-ny-2018-06d3a8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Middletown, NY.
  • This case is one of 115 New York reports filed in 2018.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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