CaseCylinder2013

Oak Harbor, WA, USA

I saw a black cylinder with a dome at one end and flame at the other with thrust sound moving slowly skyward.

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: 85s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-06-28
Where
Oak Harbor, WA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
85 seconds
Geo
48.293, -122.643 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-oak-harbor-wa-2013-3420fb
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

  • One of 27 documented reports from Oak Harbor, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 321 sightings in 2013.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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