UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1947

Clintwood, VA, USA

In July 1947 my Dad and I were working in our corn field in Clintwood Virginia (Dickerson County). Around 3PM we looked up up see a cyl

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1947-07-15
Where
Clintwood, VA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
37.150, -82.456 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-clintwood-va-1947-d6975c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1947

    The Summer of the Saucers

    United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)

    Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…

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In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Clintwood, VA.
  • This case is one of 1 Virginia reports filed in 1947.
  • Cylinder craft made up 3.9% of 1940s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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