CaseCigar2013

Palmyra, NY, USA

Me and my dad were night fishing it was a star filled night and clear skys i remember because as i was fishing i kept admiring the star

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-14
Where
Palmyra, NY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
~15 minutes
Geo
43.064, -77.233 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-palmyra-ny-2013-ea4ca2
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…

In context

  • Palmyra, NY shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 259 reports came from New York in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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