UFOMYST
CaseCigar2008

Phelps, NY, USA

two large cigar shapped odjects chased off by police helicopter

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-29
Where
Phelps, NY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20-30 sec
Geo
42.958, -77.057 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-phelps-ny-2008-294c0d
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Phelps, NY.
  • This case is one of 213 New York reports filed in 2008.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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