Syracuse, NY, USA
Orange Orbs... at least 30 spotted over 2 plus hours during fireworks display.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-04
- Where
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 hours +
- Geo
- 43.048, -76.147 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-syracuse-ny-2015-3f1f6d
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…
Local cluster
Syracuse, NY logged 4 reports in the single month of July 2015.
In context
- One of 86 documented reports from Syracuse, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 301 sightings in 2015.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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