Rochester, NY, USA
orange ball of fire hovering over Rochester NY area, chased away by another multi-colored UFO. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2007-11-18
- Where
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1.5 hours
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rochester-ny-2007-77e77d
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
- One of 139 documented reports from Rochester, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 173 sightings in 2007.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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