CaseCylinder1959
West Germany, Germany
Strong radar return w/ airborne F-86-D radar at approx. 30,000', first seen while flying N on a practice 90 degree run on wingman.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-06-30
- Where
- West Germany, Germany
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cylinder-over-west-germany-1959-3874be
In context
- West Germany, Germany has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1959 brought 1 reports from Germany.
- The 1950s skewed 2% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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