UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

New Hyde Park, NY, USA

Object flashing yellow orange green lights appeared, hovered, accelerated swiiftly and vanished

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-23
Where
New Hyde Park, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.735, -73.688 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-new-hyde-park-ny-2012-ccfd6f
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…

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In context

  • New Hyde Park, NY shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 383 reports came from New York in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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