UFOMYST
CaseFireball2021

Plattsburgh, NY, USA

it was in the sky , like how light fading away from fireworks looks like, it was a beam of red light horizontally and i turned my head

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-03-15
Where
Plattsburgh, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1.5 seconds
Geo
44.699, -73.453 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-plattsburgh-ny-2021-984a54
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Plattsburgh, NY has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 192 reports from New York.
  • The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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