CaseCylinder2019

MA, USA

I was cooking on the grill on my back porch. As I turned to grab something off the table something caught my eye in the sky. I noticed

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-09-30
Where
MA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
Slug
cylinder-over-ma-2019-2d4114
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

  • 2019 brought 117 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

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.