CaseCigar1969
Bridgeport/Lakeport, NY, USA
In July 1969, three friends near Bridgeport/Lakeport, New York, watched a cigar-shaped craft hover above the treetops near a family home for about five minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (160 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-07-14
- Where
- Bridgeport/Lakeport, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.155, -75.969 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-bridgeport-lakeport-ny-1969-bb103f
In context
- Bridgeport/Lakeport, NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from New York in 1969.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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