UFOMYST
CaseCigar2008

Plainview, NY, USA

300 ft Cigar Shaped UFO traveling at Mach speed at approx. 15,000ft above Grumman in Bethpage, NY

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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-14
Where
Plainview, NY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
30 to 40 seconds
Geo
40.776, -73.467 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-plainview-ny-2008-e00993
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

  • This is one of 10 reports logged in Plainview, 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.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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