CaseCylinder2004

Ísafjörður (Iceland), Iceland

Cylinder hiding from fighter jets in west Iceland

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-12
Where
Ísafjörður (Iceland), Iceland
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
15 min
Geo
66.075, -23.135 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-safj-r-ur-iceland-2004-9e85fc
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

    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

  • Ísafjörður (Iceland), Iceland has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 3 reports from Iceland.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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