CaseCigar1956
Richfield Springs, NY, USA
Witnesses reported six cigar-shaped objects flying together over a lake near Richfield Springs, New York for about two minutes, in a sighting dated to 1956 or 1957.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (164 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-06-15
- Where
- Richfield Springs, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 min. aprox.
- Geo
- 42.853, -74.985 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-richfield-springs-ny-1956-58474b
In context
- Richfield Springs, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1956 brought 2 reports from New York.
- The 1950s skewed 7.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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