CaseFireball2021
Nyack, NY, USA
((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no details about sighting. PD))
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- No witness text on file
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-04-09
- Where
- Nyack, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 41.091, -73.918 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-nyack-ny-2021-a068fd
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Nyack, NY shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 192 reports came from New York in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.