UFOMYST
CaseCigar1977

Buffalo, NY, USA

Everyone saw this thing, including The Buffalo Police. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-08-13
Where
Buffalo, NY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
42.886, -78.878 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-buffalo-ny-1977-489bd9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Buffalo, NY shows up 130 times across the archive.
  • 17 reports came from New York in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.