CaseCylinder1999
Cross Lanes, WV, USA
Noticed a very shiny object at a very high altitude that looked like a strange jet. It left a contrial and moved across the sky at abou
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-03-23
- Where
- Cross Lanes, WV, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.420, -81.791 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-cross-lanes-wv-1999-bda1d4
In context
- Cross Lanes, WV shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 28 reports came from West Virginia in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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