UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2016

Menorca (Spain), Spain

Long, cylindrical plane-like object appeared stationary in the sky for several hours.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-01
Where
Menorca (Spain), Spain
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
~3 hours
Geo
—
Slug
cylinder-over-menorca-spain-2016-8d5999
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Menorca (Spain), Spain in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Spain logged 5 sightings in 2016.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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