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CaseCylinder2018

Mt. St. Helens (general vicinity; in-flight), WA, USA

Passenger in Boeing 737 witnesses obj. off L side of aircraft. ((NUFORC Note: Witness is pilot and experienced a/c mechanic. PD))

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-06-24
Where
Mt. St. Helens (general vicinity; in-flight), WA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2-4 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
cylinder-over-mt-st-helens-general-vicinity-in-flight-wa-2018-c7a029
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

  • Mt. St. Helens (general vicinity; in-flight), WA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 172 reports came from Washington in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Report

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