CaseCylinder2018

Taylor, MI, USA

Saw a silver vertical cylinder shaped object. The object stayed almost motionless for about ten minutes while I talked to a co worker o

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-03-19
Where
Taylor, MI, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
42.241, -83.270 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-taylor-mi-2018-a384dc
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

  • Taylor, MI has 14 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 62 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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