UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2017

Janesville, WI, USA

Stationary, solid, white cylinder floating 20-40 feet above a building.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-31
Where
Janesville, WI, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
42.683, -89.019 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-janesville-wi-2017-4fc70e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 32 documented reports from Janesville, WI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Wisconsin logged 88 sightings in 2017.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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