CaseCylinder2005
Bristol, South Gloucester (UK/England), United Kingdom
tube of light in clear blue sky
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-21
- Where
- Bristol, South Gloucester (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Geo
- 51.455, -2.597 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-bristol-south-gloucester-uk-england-2005-1b23f1
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Bristol, South Gloucester (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
- United Kingdom logged 159 sightings in 2005.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.6%).
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.