CaseCylinder1998
Marion, IA, USA
ten (10) white cylinder shaped objects flying in standard formattion, for appox. 5 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-14
- Where
- Marion, IA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5mins
- Geo
- 42.034, -91.598 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-marion-ia-1998-8ee317
In context
- Marion, IA has 13 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 18 reports from Iowa.
- The 1990s skewed 1.4% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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