CaseCylinder2015

I-10 (MM# 15; 10 mi. N of MS), MS, USA

A black tube, surrounded by blue lightning, shot across the sky and disappeared with a flash and an electrical surge.

Report quality: Moderate41/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-07-23
Where
I-10 (MM# 15; 10 mi. N of MS), MS, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
1 second
Geo
Slug
cylinder-over-i-10-mm-15-10-mi-n-of-ms-ms-2015-72788e
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…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from I-10 (MM# 15; 10 mi. N of MS), MS in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Mississippi logged 41 sightings in 2015.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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