CaseCigar1979
Ithaca, NY, USA
I was driving at nighttime from Dryden toward Ithaca NY on a country road when I saw a very large and bright white object in the sky.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-06-01
- Where
- Ithaca, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 42.441, -76.497 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-ithaca-ny-1979-718254
In context
- Ithaca, NY has 31 sightings on file here.
- 1979 brought 19 reports from New York.
- The 1970s skewed 5.2% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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