CaseCylinder2010

Killen, AL, USA

One or two balls or cylinders of light drifting slowly west to east with intermittent quick movement up and down and back to the west

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-14
Where
Killen, AL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
ongoing
Geo
34.863, -87.538 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-killen-al-2010-dde7ec
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Killen, AL.
  • This case is one of 26 Alabama reports filed in 2010.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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