CaseTeardrop2000

Ithaca, NY, USA

Gigantic white teardrop plunges into Cayuga Lake, Ithaca, NY in late July, 2000.

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 (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2000-07-30
Where
Ithaca, NY, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
00:00:10
Geo
42.441, -76.497 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-ithaca-ny-2000-68a881

In context

  • Ithaca, NY shows up 31 times across the archive.
  • 123 reports came from New York in 2000.
  • In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Report

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