CaseCylinder2018
Primghar (close to), IA, USA
Two golden cylindrical distant objects far above the wind turbines
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-08-06
- Where
- Primghar (close to), IA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- ~5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.087, -95.627 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-primghar-close-to-ia-2018-fe6ae6
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Primghar (close to), IA.
- This case is one of 33 Iowa reports filed in 2018.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s 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.