CaseCigar1974
Herkimer, NY, USA
It was mid -1974 or 1975 , heading west after sunset ( it was dark) , I came up a slight rise & noticed a peculiar steady light quite
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-06-30
- Where
- Herkimer, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 43.026, -74.986 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-herkimer-ny-1974-acd303
In context
- One of 10 documented reports from Herkimer, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 14 sightings in 1974.
- Cigar sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1970s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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