CaseCylinder1956
Memphis, TN, USA
A witness in Memphis, Tennessee reported a dull orange, bent cylindrical object hovering silently over railroad tracks before shooting straight up, over ten to fifteen minutes in June 1956.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (189 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-06-01
- Where
- Memphis, TN, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 10-15 min.?
- Geo
- 35.150, -90.049 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-memphis-tn-1956-84b3d0
In context
- This is one of 126 reports logged in Memphis, TN.
- This case is one of 2 Tennessee reports filed in 1956.
- Cylinder craft made up 2% of 1950s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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