CaseCigar1987
New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA
Three fast moving violently churning out of place red and black clouds
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1987-06-01
- Where
- New York City (Staten Island), NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 Minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-new-york-city-staten-island-ny-1987-f1fbc4
In context
- New York City (Staten Island), NY shows up 56 times across the archive.
- 17 reports came from New York in 1987.
- In the 1980s, 3.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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