UFOMYST
CaseCigar2003

New York City (Queens), NY, USA

cigar shaped object fling fast near jfk airport

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2003-11-18
Where
New York City (Queens), NY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-new-york-city-queens-ny-2003-3d0dab
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2003

    NY flap 2003-11

    NY, USA

    15 sightings in geohash dr5r (NY) during 2003 peak months 11–11; top shape triangle

    15 reportsOpen wave →
Flap

NY flap 2003-11

This report belongs to the NY flap 2003-11 — 15 sightings concentrated together.

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In context

  • New York City (Queens), NY shows up 52 times across the archive.
  • 159 reports came from New York in 2003.
  • In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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