UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1997

Sydney (NSW, Australia), Australia

A long, rotating tube like object, covered with small windows. Perhaps 50m long. With two antennae like objects protruding from the fro

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-17
Where
Sydney (NSW, Australia), Australia
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
-33.868, 151.207 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-sydney-nsw-australia-1997-bcd780
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Sydney (NSW, Australia), Australia has 46 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 12 reports from Australia.
  • The 1990s skewed 1.4% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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