UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2014

Lancaster, MA, USA

4 bright craft hovering in sky.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-22
Where
Lancaster, MA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.456, -71.673 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-lancaster-ma-2014-98705d
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 4 documented reports from Lancaster, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 201 sightings in 2014.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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