CaseCylinder1986
Owensboro, KY, USA
"Baton-shaped" object moving end-over-end in clear afternoon sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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 (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-09-18
- Where
- Owensboro, KY, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- approx 3 minutes
- Geo
- 37.774, -87.113 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-owensboro-ky-1986-4d1fef
In context
- This is one of 29 reports logged in Owensboro, KY.
- This case is one of 12 Kentucky reports filed in 1986.
- Cylinder craft made up 2% of 1980s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.