UFOMYST
CaseCigar2021

Staten Island, NY, USA

Bright orb ufo next I pick up a huge cigar ufo no lights no sound the more I think about this craft the more it freaks me out.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-08-15
Where
Staten Island, NY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2min
Geo
40.562, -74.140 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-staten-island-ny-2021-c218df
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…

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In context

  • Staten Island, NY has 65 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 192 reports from New York.
  • The 2020s skewed 2.6% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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