Watkins Glen, NY, USA
Adult female witnesses 8 bizarre objects in the night sky. ((NUFORC Note: See other reports from siblings of witness. PD))
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-13
- Where
- Watkins Glen, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.381, -76.873 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-watkins-glen-ny-2011-03603d
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
3 reports came out of Watkins Glen, NY in July 2011 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Watkins Glen, NY has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 251 reports from New York.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.