CaseFireball2002
North Haledon, NJ, USA
A red ball of fire, watches us, then dives away.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-06-15
- Where
- North Haledon, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- Couple minutes
- Geo
- 40.955, -74.186 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-north-haledon-nj-2002-229f4e
In context
- North Haledon, NJ shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 59 reports came from New Jersey in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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