UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1997

Reno, NV, USA

U.F.O.s sighted from commercial airplane.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-11
Where
Reno, NV, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
3 Mins.
Geo
39.530, -119.814 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-reno-nv-1997-8b950b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Reno, NV shows up 189 times across the archive.
  • 29 reports came from Nevada in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Report

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