UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2018

Columbia, MO, USA

Hurling grey white cylinder object in the skies over Missouri. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-01
Where
Columbia, MO, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
<1 minute
Geo
38.952, -92.334 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-columbia-mo-2018-cda741
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…

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In context

  • One of 95 documented reports from Columbia, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 62 sightings in 2018.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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