UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2007

Shafter VOR (in flight), CA, USA

Private pilot witnesses "magenta-colored" object streak by his aircraft.

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.

  • Duration parsed: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-06-18
Where
Shafter VOR (in flight), CA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
10-15 Seconds
Geo
—
Slug
cylinder-over-shafter-vor-in-flight-ca-2007-4d5142
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Shafter VOR (in flight), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 587 sightings in 2007.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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