UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2008

Gig Harbor, WA, USA

cigar shaped object reflecting for clouds

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-03-06
Where
Gig Harbor, WA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
47.329, -122.580 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-gig-harbor-wa-2008-98cee6
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

  • This is one of 41 reports logged in Gig Harbor, WA.
  • This case is one of 200 Washington reports filed in 2008.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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