UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2018

Altoona, PA, USA

Large, wingless, cylinder moving through the sky.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-16
Where
Altoona, PA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.519, -78.395 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-altoona-pa-2018-52e5ec
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…

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In context

  • One of 24 documented reports from Altoona, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 94 sightings in 2018.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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