CaseCylinder2020

Marin County, CA, USA

Stationary groups of glowing lights seen at treetop level

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-23
Where
Marin County, CA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
38.055, -122.749 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-marin-county-ca-2020-0ec40c
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

  • Marin County, CA has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 622 reports from California.
  • The 2020s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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