UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2020

Wilmington, DE, USA

Driving on Old Coach Road towards Polly Drummond Road at 5pm when noticed a skinny object with a red and white light at either end fly

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-12-01
Where
Wilmington, DE, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
30 sec
Geo
39.746, -75.547 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-wilmington-de-2020-f27311
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 52 documented reports from Wilmington, DE in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Delaware logged 27 sightings in 2020.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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