CaseCigar2002
Albany, NY, USA
Cigar shaped object caught on tape over albany international airport moving at an incredible rate of speed local news fox23
Report quality: High89/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 8 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-20
- Where
- Albany, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.653, -73.756 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-albany-ny-2002-a48311
Local cluster
Local cluster
9 reports came out of Albany, NY in October 2002 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Albany, NY has 70 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 155 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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