CaseCylinder1982
Johannesburg (South Africa), South Africa
The above date is a guess but it was reported to the Johannesburg Star who reported that there were other witnesses in rearby suburbs.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1982-04-30
- Where
- Johannesburg (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- -26.202, 28.044 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-johannesburg-south-africa-1982-f94862
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In context
- This is one of 32 reports logged in Johannesburg (South Africa), South Africa.
- This case is one of 1 South Africa reports filed in 1982.
- Cylinder craft made up 2% of 1980s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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