CaseCylinder2020
Vancouver, WA, USA
Drones in Vancouver?
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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
- Brief witness text (20 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-03
- Where
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30 minutes +
- Geo
- 45.639, -122.661 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-vancouver-wa-2020-9487b3
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Vancouver, WA shows up 223 times across the archive.
- 371 reports came from Washington in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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