CaseCylinder1974
Chesapeake, VA, USA
A report from Chesapeake, VA in May 1974 described a small, gray or silver, cylinder-shaped object that made no sound, lasting Minutes.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-05-15
- Where
- Chesapeake, VA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- Minutes
- Geo
- 36.819, -76.275 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-chesapeake-va-1974-525e7f
In context
- Chesapeake, VA shows up 60 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Virginia in 1974.
- In the 1970s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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