UFOMYST
CaseCigar2019

New York City, NY, USA

Cigar-like object, brownish in color, seemed to travel in tighter and tighter circles until disappeared, leaving strong odor

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-05-22
Where
New York City, NY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-new-york-city-ny-2019-1771ce
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

  • One of 176 documented reports from New York City, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 192 sightings in 2019.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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