CaseCylinder2007

Edinburgh (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom

silver, cylinder, no fumes, wings, tail or windows and vanished completely in clear blue skies

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 (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-01-29
Where
Edinburgh (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
1 min
Geo
55.952, -3.196 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-edinburgh-uk-scotland-2007-a8c55f
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…

In context

  • Edinburgh (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom shows up 21 times across the archive.
  • 177 reports came from United Kingdom in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Report

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