UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2006

Cupertino, CA, USA

Stationary cyllinder in 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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (27 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-09-09
Where
Cupertino, CA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
37.323, -122.032 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-cupertino-ca-2006-4803ec
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Cupertino, CA has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 561 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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