CaseCylinder2002
Germantown, TN, USA
Silver cylinder with bulbous ends appeared for four seconds near clouds in daylight and was photographed.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-18
- Where
- Germantown, TN, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 4 SECONDS
- Geo
- 35.087, -89.810 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-germantown-tn-2002-42e17b
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Germantown, TN in September 2002 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Germantown, TN has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 52 reports from Tennessee.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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