CaseFireball2016

Pomona, NY, USA

Started with a green fireball followed by flashing lights in the sky then complete power outage and object was gone

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-04-29
Where
Pomona, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
41.167, -74.043 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-pomona-ny-2016-9303ed
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

  • Pomona, NY shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 218 reports came from New York in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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