UFOMYST
CaseCigar2006

Utica, NY, USA

I was looking at the stars,as I stopped on a rest area. At one point i seen these 2 stars moving, at first i thought it was a cloud pas

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-10-03
Where
Utica, NY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 MIN
Geo
43.101, -75.233 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-utica-ny-2006-e08c23
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

  • One of 48 documented reports from Utica, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 125 sightings in 2006.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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