Casecylinder1976

McDermitt (NE of; Lat 42 05'N Lon 117 00'W, NV, USA

Name: UFO sighting — McDermitt (NE of; Lat 42 05'N Lon 117 00'W, NV, USA
Start: 1976-08-15
Location: McDermitt (NE of; Lat 42 05'N Lon 117 00'W, NV, USA

5 witness long tubular shaped object moving S to N low to the ground with 6-7 oval lights. The first and last lights were colored red,

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (134 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1976-08-15
Where: McDermitt (NE of; Lat 42 05'N Lon 117 00'W, NV, USA
Shape: cylinder
Duration: 3-5 min
Geo: 41.997, -117.718 · exact
Slug: cylinder-over-mcdermitt-ne-of-lat-42-05-n-lon-117-00-w-nv-1976-5d2461

In context

McDermitt (NE of; Lat 42 05'N Lon 117 00'W, NV shows up 1 times across the archive.
2 reports came from Nevada in 1976.
In the 1970s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

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