CaseFireball1998
New York City, NY, USA
A red, glowing object hovering above the East River. It then dropped into the river, and its glow could still be seen after the object
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-24
- Where
- New York City, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-7 min
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-new-york-city-ny-1998-423039
In context
- This is one of 176 reports logged in New York City, NY.
- This case is one of 71 New York reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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