Cayuga Lake, New YorkApril 1952

Unidentified

Summary

On April 3, 1952, at 2110 (9:10 p.m.) Eastern time, two people reported a fireball over the Cayuga Lake region of New York. One observer was a crew chief for an airline with twelve years of aviation experience. He, his wife, and a friend saw the object from a car about seven miles from Ithaca, along the west shore of Cayuga Lake.

The witnesses described a sizable ball of fire, green in color, with green flames streaking out. It moved very rapidly in an arc from northeast to northwest across Cayuga Lake.

The report was sent after the wife read a magazine article asking people to notify the Air Force of such sightings. The Air Force record card lists the conclusion as probably astronomical, a meteor, and labels the object a green fireball.

Reported location

Cayuga Lake, New York

Date of incident

April 1952

State / country

NY / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 9

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

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