UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2005

Salem/Shawsville(between; driving on I-81 S), VA, USA

Silver-aluminum like cylinder object in broad day light on I-81!!

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-07-25
Where
Salem/Shawsville(between; driving on I-81 S), VA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5-10
Geo
37.293, -80.055 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-salem-shawsville-between-driving-on-i-81-s-va-2005-8c1ea7
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Salem/Shawsville(between; driving on I-81 S), VA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 75 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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