Fireball over Cortland, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A group of about 10 fireball like objects traveling at about the speed of a normal helicopter with no sound. Ten minutes to cross sky.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
Ask for the records
What would the paper say?
For a dated, located U.S. sighting, FAA radar data and ATC communications are the records most likely to exist. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2012-08-22 → 2012-09-08
From the same sky
Related entries
August 8, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Cortland, NY
They would repeat this sequence for a few times before disappearing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2010 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Cortland, NY
3 redish orange lights seen over central ny traveling south east direction
November 11, 2005 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Cortland, NY
Light faded away and reappered in different location several times.
July 2, 2004 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cortland, NY
20+ fast moving objects in the span of about an hour, upstate NY, 7/2/04
April 20, 2002 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cortland, NY
Seven points of light continuously changing position with each other, yet all moving in the same direction.