CaseCigar1962
New York City, NY, USA
A witness in New York City reported a cigar-shaped object on December 21, 1962, describing a sighting that reportedly lasted about 15 minutes.
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.
- Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (142 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1962-12-21
- Where
- New York City, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-new-york-city-ny-1962-1c7ea4
In context
- New York City, NY shows up 176 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from New York in 1962.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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