CaseCylinder2002
Erie, PA, USA
Bright Cylinder Shaped Object Makes a Showing Over Lake Erie in August 2002
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-17
- Where
- Erie, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 Minutes
- Geo
- 42.129, -80.085 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-erie-pa-2002-59b9c5
In context
- This is one of 62 reports logged in Erie, PA.
- This case is one of 135 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2002.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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