CaseFireball1996
New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
Me and two friends were in a park hanging out. We looked up and saw a "fireball" streak across the entire sky, which was visible to us,
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-05-05
- Where
- New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-7 seconds
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-new-york-city-bronx-ny-1996-bd2a92
In context
- New York City (Bronx), NY has 100 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 28 reports from New York.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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