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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