CaseSphere2010

Alexandria, NY, USA

3 large, brilliant red-orange fireballs hovered over tree line silently in area of uninhabited woods and lake.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-08-20
Where
Alexandria, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
20-30 minutes
Geo
38.805, -77.047 · fallback
Slug
sphere-over-alexandria-ny-2010-c144a0
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Alexandria, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 180 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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