CaseCylinder2001
Cairns (QLD, Australia), Australia
Shape looked like crushed tin foil.
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (35 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-20
- Where
- Cairns (QLD, Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 8 mins
- Geo
- -16.924, 145.766 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-cairns-qld-australia-2001-15637d
In context
- Cairns (QLD, Australia), Australia shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 48 reports came from Australia in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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