UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2017

Shinston, WV, USA

Yes I witnessed this craft while in a McDonald's drive thru it hovered approx three minutes before shooting straight up in wht seemed l

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-10-07
Where
Shinston, WV, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
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Slug
cylinder-over-shinston-wv-2017-4cd18e
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Shinston, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • West Virginia logged 23 sightings in 2017.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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