UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2019

Rock Island, IL, USA

Saw something barrel shaped and white up high (went in and out of clouds), looked like an oil drum on it's side, no visible lights, no

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-08-03
Where
Rock Island, IL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
41.509, -90.579 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-rock-island-il-2019-ac4ec0
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

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In context

  • This is one of 8 reports logged in Rock Island, IL.
  • This case is one of 166 Illinois reports filed in 2019.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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