CaseCylinder2014

Wakefield, MA, USA

Cylinder shaped object flying within our atmosphere in a North-Easterly direction, seen by Father & Daughter, both Public Accountants.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-07-08
Where
Wakefield, MA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
42.506, -71.073 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-wakefield-ma-2014-e81197
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

  • This is one of 14 reports logged in Wakefield, MA.
  • This case is one of 201 Massachusetts reports filed in 2014.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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