UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2014

Benson, VT, USA

Red, green, and yellow object in the night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible "twinkling" star? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2014-04-17
Where
Benson, VT, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
1/2 hour
Geo
43.707, -73.311 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-benson-vt-2014-d230d6
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Benson, VT shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 37 reports came from Vermont in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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.