UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1997

Stoke-on-Trent (UK/England), United Kingdom

TRANSLUCENT (V) FORMATION OBJECTS AT CLOSE QUARTERS 1997

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-27
Where
Stoke-on-Trent (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
30 SECONDS
Geo
53.004, -2.185 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-stoke-on-trent-uk-england-1997-10950e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Stoke-on-Trent (UK/England), United Kingdom has 18 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 47 reports from United Kingdom.
  • The 1990s skewed 1.4% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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