UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2015

Chennai (India), India

Saw a red ball of fire and reddish/orange lights in the sky at 19:15 (Chennai).....The lights were vertically and cylindrically shaped.

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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-03-26
Where
Chennai (India), India
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
50 seconds
Geo
13.088, 80.278 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-chennai-india-2015-4df726
Wave

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In context

  • One of 14 documented reports from Chennai (India), India in the UFOMYST archive.
  • India logged 35 sightings in 2015.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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