UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2018

Carmel, NY, USA

Thinner than a blimp but fatter than a cigar, flying low and slow. Close enough for witness to see ribbed features.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-06-16
Where
Carmel, NY, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
—
Geo
41.430, -73.680 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-carmel-ny-2018-e43b32
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

  • Carmel, NY shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 115 reports came from New York in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.