CaseCylinder2010
Nantucket, MA, USA
((HOAX??)) We saw a red tube in the sky.
Report quality: Low18/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (29 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2010-05-22
- Where
- Nantucket, MA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.283, -70.099 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-nantucket-ma-2010-0f6ac9
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
- One of 11 documented reports from Nantucket, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 107 sightings in 2010.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 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.