UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2022

Fort Payne, AL, USA

I'm capturing these "rods" on my infrared security camera usually between 12 a.m. and 4 a.m. each morning.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-03-01
Where
Fort Payne, AL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
34.444, -85.720 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-fort-payne-al-2022-5d96a9
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 13 reports logged in Fort Payne, AL.
  • This case is one of 28 Alabama reports filed in 2022.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2020s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.