CaseCylinder1984
Altha (near), FL, USA
The object hovered behind a cloud for close to a half hour and if it was a helecopter it would have made a sound.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1984-08-26
- Where
- Altha (near), FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 30.570, -85.127 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-altha-near-fl-1984-3227dc
In context
- Altha (near), FL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Florida in 1984.
- In the 1980s, 2% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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