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

  • Historical wave2004

    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

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