CaseCigar2008

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
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

  • 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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