CaseCigar2009
Port Byron, NY, USA
Cigar-shaped object sighted in NY
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-14
- Where
- Port Byron, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 43.035, -76.624 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-port-byron-ny-2009-3a82ac
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Port Byron, NY.
- This case is one of 206 New York reports filed in 2009.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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