CaseCylinder2005
Lancaster, CA, USA
Cylinder object flying low with three balls of light.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-07
- Where
- Lancaster, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 34.698, -118.137 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-lancaster-ca-2005-b510fe
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Lancaster, CA shows up 51 times across the archive.
- 539 reports came from California in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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