UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2017

Mattoon, IL, USA

Silver cylinder shaped moving slowly across sky N-NW direction. ((anonymous report))

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-09-28
Where
Mattoon, IL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
39.483, -88.373 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-mattoon-il-2017-6044aa
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…

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In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Mattoon, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 93 sightings in 2017.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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