UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2004

OH, USA

Bright flash lightens up night sky, object fires across sky at unbelievable speed… ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))

Report quality: Low25/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-10-24
Where
OH, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2-5 seconds
Geo
—
Slug
cylinder-over-oh-2004-b3f903
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

  • 2004 brought 134 reports from Ohio.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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