CaseFireball2012

Rochester, NH, USA

A series of 7 flaming type objects crossing the night sky from South to North lasting 15 minutes.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-11-17
Where
Rochester, NH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
43.305, -70.976 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-rochester-nh-2012-40953f
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

  • Rochester, NH has 30 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 80 reports from New Hampshire.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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