UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2018

Mechanicsville, VA, USA

60 year engineering professional driving saw 2 lights hovering in dark sky approximately 100ft away. Pulled over on side of road.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-05-26
Where
Mechanicsville, VA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
1 minutes
Geo
37.609, -77.373 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-mechanicsville-va-2018-2cc995
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 13 documented reports from Mechanicsville, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 74 sightings in 2018.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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