UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2008

Syracuse, NY, USA

Cylinder shaped UFO high up in air . Commercial airliner performs extremely steep climb and then circles to apparently investigate .

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-10-12
Where
Syracuse, NY, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
viewed while riding shotg
Geo
43.048, -76.147 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-syracuse-ny-2008-cc7999
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 86 documented reports from Syracuse, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 213 sightings in 2008.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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