Staten Island, NY, USA
One fireball looking object followed by another one about 20 seconds later synchronized with the first one, moving in a fast speed
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-21
- Where
- Staten Island, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- approx 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.562, -74.140 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-staten-island-ny-2012-8f17c7
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
- This is one of 65 reports logged in Staten Island, NY.
- This case is one of 383 New York reports filed in 2012.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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