CaseCigar1968
Buffalo, NY, USA
A witness in Buffalo, New York reported a fluorescent green, cigar-shaped object at close range, about six feet away, silent and lasting about two minutes, in October 1968.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (172 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-10-14
- Where
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.886, -78.878 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-buffalo-ny-1968-7fa3de
In context
- Buffalo, NY has 130 sightings on file here.
- 1968 brought 8 reports from New York.
- The 1960s skewed 7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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