CaseCylinder1998
Fire Island Pines (off Great South Bay), NY, USA
While Kayaking in the Bay, I noticed a large black Cylinder rolling/floating in the sky, I pointed it out to a man on shore and a passi
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-25
- Where
- Fire Island Pines (off Great South Bay), NY, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 10min
- Geo
- 40.665, -73.068 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-fire-island-pines-off-great-south-bay-ny-1998-c6c816
In context
- Fire Island Pines (off Great South Bay), NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 71 reports came from New York in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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