Cylinder UFO Sightings
2,179 Cylinder-shaped UFO sightings recorded worldwide since 1937, peaking in 2014 (130 reports); most commonly reported in United States.
- Total sightings
- 2,179
- Span
- 1937–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (130 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Cylinder
1937–2022 · peak 2014 (130 reports)
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Suffolk · VA, USA
Five cylinder shaped objects flying in the same path about 10 minutes apart...no wings or chem trails!
Kratzerville · PA, USA
A drone-like UFO was being chased by a fighter jet at seriously high speed.
Meridian · ID, USA
Mother ship size cylinder/cigar object with 6 lights moving west to east.
Arlington · AZ, USA
Silver Cylinder Flying Dark over the Far West Valley
Lakeland · FL, USA
We observed at first blinking white lights, but then we saw the bottom spinning with a red glow. Changing directions.
Orwell · VT, USA
A long string of lights moving slowly, like a cylinder with lighted windows. ((NUFORC Note: SpaceLink satellites. PD))
Forks · WA, USA
Comet or craft?!
North Conway · NH, USA
Dark night full of stars. A line of blinking lights in an opaque vessel; traveling W to E. ((NUFORC Note: SpaceLink satellites. PD))
Colville · WA, USA
View was S sky. A row of 3 visible lights appeared overhead, high alt.. ((NUFORC Note: SpaceX satellites? PD))
Jones Creek · TX, USA
No lights. Appeared as a vertical, grey, smoky cylinder. Estimate fifty feet tall twenty five feet wide.Moving in a southeastern di
Philadelphia · PA, USA
Clear, cylinder, objects around it hovering under airplane
Morganton · NC, USA
Saw what looked like a descending spacecraft over the Charlotte NC area at 6:50 AM on April 4, 2019. ((anonymous report))
Sarasota · FL, USA
It was definitely cylinder shaped. It had white lights on the inside, and had lights on the bottom of the object.
Ballston Lake · NY, USA
White Tic tac shaped object floating silently in the middle of the day.
Philadelphia · PA, USA
While at work house painting outside, saw a bright silver cylinder. It appeared to be floating. ((anonymous report))
Eagle River · AK, USA
Driving down eagle river road looked into sky and notice several oval shaped UFO. ((anonymous report))
Spokane Valley · WA, USA
3 long silver cylinders not moving placed like in a half moon shape
Raymore · MO, USA
Blinking light, heading North, appeared to be cylinder like.
Puyallup · WA, USA
Lighted cylinder hovers over Puyallup, WA.
Greene (SE of) · IA, USA
((NUFORC Note: Witness, who elects to remain anonymous, provides no information about the alleged sighting. PD))
Babylon · NY, USA
Object of bright light over Long Island NY coast. ((anonymous report))
Yucca Valley · CA, USA
Something caught my eye to the east. Just above the military base in Twenty Nine Palms. ((anonymous report))
Santa Barbara · CA, USA
A circular object was videoed hovering over the ocean off the Santa Barbara coast. Witnessed the object for about 10-15 minutes before
Kenai · AK, USA
Approximately, 7:47 am we all noticed one bright light and two smaller/dimmer lights behind it coming down at an extremely sharp angle
Kuwait
This cylindrical shadow looks similar to a sighting reported about a "Cylinder V Craft" over Brazil on 16 December 2018