CaseCylinder2013
Salinas (~1 hour past; on Hwy 101), CA, USA
Huge pulsing object shoots across sky toward ocean.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-12
- Where
- Salinas (~1 hour past; on Hwy 101), CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 36.678, -121.656 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-salinas-1-hour-past-on-hwy-101-ca-2013-6999df
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
- Salinas (~1 hour past; on Hwy 101), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 728 reports came from California in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 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.