UFOMYST
CaseCigar2005

Chestertown, NY, USA

Appeared to be silver and cigar shaped with opaque field rround it

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-08-26
Where
Chestertown, NY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 Minutes
Geo
43.653, -73.801 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-chestertown-ny-2005-8f8ddf
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Chestertown, NY.
  • This case is one of 162 New York reports filed in 2005.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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