UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2019

Ocotillo Wells, CA, USA

We were out star gazing during a full moon at 2:00 AM at Shell Reef and took a picture of the moon and horizon and in the picture it ca

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-11-15
Where
Ocotillo Wells, CA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.144, -116.134 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-ocotillo-wells-ca-2019-8fef69
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 2 documented reports from Ocotillo Wells, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 510 sightings in 2019.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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