CaseCylinder1964
Fries, VA, USA
A witness in Fries, Virginia described a silent, heavy-looking metallic, cylindrical object moving slowly against the wind on a sunny March morning in 1964, lasting about 30 minutes.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (182 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1964-03-30
- Where
- Fries, VA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30minutes
- Geo
- 36.716, -80.979 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-fries-va-1964-d80d6c
In context
- Fries, VA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1964 brought 4 reports from Virginia.
- The 1960s skewed 2% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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