UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1989

Chappaqua, NY, USA

Hudson Valley UFO, summer late 1980s

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-08-08
Where
Chappaqua, NY, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.160, -73.765 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-chappaqua-ny-1989-891fee
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Chappaqua, NY has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 23 reports from New York.
  • The 1980s skewed 2% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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