CaseCylinder1949
Wilmington, DE, USA
I was ascending a external staircase from our basement. Suddenly above me in the evening dark sky a very large, wide cylinder appeared
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1949-08-15
- Where
- Wilmington, DE, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.746, -75.547 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-wilmington-de-1949-ba869c
In context
- One of 52 documented reports from Wilmington, DE in the UFOMYST archive.
- Delaware logged 1 sightings in 1949.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 3.9% during the 1940s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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