UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2021

Norfolk, VA, USA

White cylindrical object with trailing haze, bigger than our plane, pilots don’t know what it is.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-02-09
Where
Norfolk, VA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
36.847, -76.285 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-norfolk-va-2021-d1c7b2
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 52 reports logged in Norfolk, VA.
  • This case is one of 59 Virginia reports filed in 2021.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2020s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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