CaseCigar2012

Grand Island, NY, USA

Cigar shaped object

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (19 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-11-05
Where
Grand Island, NY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
43.033, -78.963 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-grand-island-ny-2012-1b2e93
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…

In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from Grand Island, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 383 sightings in 2012.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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