UFOMYST
CaseCigar2009

Buffalo, NY, USA

While traveling north on I-190, a friend and I saw a shiny object in the sky close to the horizon line. It appeared as if it was a brig

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-10-17
Where
Buffalo, NY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
brief
Geo
42.886, -78.878 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-buffalo-ny-2009-a0a486
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • This is one of 130 reports logged in Buffalo, NY.
  • This case is one of 206 New York reports filed in 2009.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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