UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2021

Longview, WA, USA

Object that looked like a string of pearls in the 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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-15
Where
Longview, WA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
46.138, -122.938 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-longview-wa-2021-9270bf
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

  • This is one of 32 reports logged in Longview, WA.
  • This case is one of 190 Washington reports filed in 2021.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2020s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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