CaseUnknown1996
Ithaca, NY, USA
Woman & husband (pilot) see very large, illuminated obj., shaped like "upside down cage on a blimp," pass overhead. Good rept..
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-02-16
- Where
- Ithaca, NY, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 min.
- Geo
- 42.441, -76.497 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-ithaca-ny-1996-6d7ac5
In context
- One of 31 documented reports from Ithaca, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 28 sightings in 1996.
Report
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