UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1997

Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Dark. Between Fontaine and Drennan Rd. A tall, brightly litobject descended in field near reservoir west of Powers Rd. Tieredwith mul

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-07
Where
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
38.834, -104.821 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-colorado-springs-co-1997-baea0a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 258 documented reports from Colorado Springs, CO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Colorado logged 22 sightings in 1997.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.4% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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