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CaseFireball2003

New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA

I was sitting in my backyard And i saw a Big red fireball across the sky, my wife marge, and my dad, George were with me i was worried

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2003-11-13
Where
New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 min
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-new-york-city-staten-island-ny-2003-55d49f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2003

    NY flap 2003-11

    NY, USA

    15 sightings in geohash dr5r (NY) during 2003 peak months 11–11; top shape triangle

    15 reportsOpen wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

November 2003 was a busy month for New York City (Staten Island), NY: 3 separate reports.

Flap

NY flap 2003-11

One of 15 sightings that make up the NY flap 2003-11.

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In context

  • This is one of 56 reports logged in New York City (Staten Island), NY.
  • This case is one of 159 New York reports filed in 2003.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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