CaseCylinder2001
San Marcos, TX, USA
It was a cylinder that had 3 bright spotlights and moved too slowly and quietly to be a helicopter!
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-20
- Where
- San Marcos, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 29.883, -97.941 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-san-marcos-tx-2001-b7918e
In context
- This is one of 29 reports logged in San Marcos, TX.
- This case is one of 140 Texas reports filed in 2001.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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