Johnson City, NY, USA
Silver cigar shaped craft sighted flying over Binghamton, NY, headed towards Chenango bridge/chenango Forks area.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-26
- Where
- Johnson City, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 sceonds
- Geo
- 42.116, -75.959 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-johnson-city-ny-2008-88f7a7
Part of a wave
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
- Johnson City, NY shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 213 reports came from New York in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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