CaseCylinder1970
Palmdale, CA, USA
A flaming cylindrical object crossed the entire sky, north to south, in about 3 min.
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 (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-08-01
- Where
- Palmdale, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 34.579, -118.116 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-palmdale-ca-1970-5afe19
In context
- Palmdale, CA shows up 56 times across the archive.
- 22 reports came from California in 1970.
- In the 1970s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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