Watertown, NY, USA
My friend and I were on our way to my summer place in Canada and had pulled off I-81 for a rest stop. We were looking at how beautiful
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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-05-29
- Where
- Watertown, NY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30-45 seconds
- Geo
- 43.975, -75.911 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-watertown-ny-1977-9f788d
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In context
- Watertown, NY shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 17 reports came from New York in 1977.
- In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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