Webster, NY, USA
8 descending fireballs over Lake Ontario from Rochester, NY. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-23
- Where
- Webster, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 0:11
- Geo
- 43.212, -77.430 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-webster-ny-2017-e38d45
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
- Webster, NY shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 187 reports came from New York in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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