CaseCylinder2008

Hanford Nuclear Reservation, WA, USA

Low flying black cylinder without any lights or noise

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-11
Where
Hanford Nuclear Reservation, WA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
Slug
cylinder-over-hanford-nuclear-reservation-wa-2008-18a95e
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

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Hanford Nuclear Reservation, 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.

Report

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