CaseCylinder2021
Salina, KS, USA
Long orange light in the sky traveling north
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (44 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-06-30
- Where
- Salina, KS, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.840, -97.611 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-salina-ks-2021-ef109c
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
- This is one of 22 reports logged in Salina, KS.
- This case is one of 23 Kansas reports filed in 2021.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2020s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
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.