UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2020

Alexandria, VA, USA

I don't know if this is a craft or a star I don't know what it is it's stationary it's due South from my location I used a compass it's

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-31
Where
Alexandria, VA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
Continuous
Geo
38.805, -77.047 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-alexandria-va-2020-1f12e7
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

  • Alexandria, VA shows up 112 times across the archive.
  • 106 reports came from Virginia in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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