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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St. Louis · MO, USA
Saw a bright metallic object floating in the sky
Wilkes-Barre · PA, USA
Cylindrical object - highly reflective, metallic-looking surface with no dicernable features other than its shape moving east.
Clarksville · TN, USA
Very large cylindrical craft that resembles molten lava at low altitude traveling Northwest of Clarksville, TN
Muscle Shoals · AL, USA
Dual metallic cylinder craft with no sound.
Napa · CA, USA
Cylinder shaped craft with conicle nose and whiteish with no wings visible and no contrail or sound ,traveling mach 1- 2.
La Crescenta · CA, USA
A small vertical cylinder hovered me for over 4 minutes.
Mesquite · TX, USA
UFO'S over Mesquite, TX.
De Land · IL, USA
((HOAX??)) Sphere thru telescope exploded into several smaller spheres.
Kent (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Two long poles set apart, shimmering in sunlight like silver, moving slowly - seen in daylight hours
Barcelona (Spain) · Spain
2 small, cylindrical shaped ufo's in sky over Barcelona.
Boring · OR, USA
Spinning, tubular UFO flies and flashes acrross sky while several others in sight in Boring.
Manalapan · NJ, USA
UFO sighting in suburban NJ, close enough to see the shape, details and color of the object.
Banning · CA, USA
Witnessed dark grey cylinder shaped object (traveling West to East) during the Lunar eclipse.
Glendora · CA, USA
Small cylinder flying across the sky during the blood moon lunar eclipse.
Wichita · KS, USA
Stationary cylinder object lights up sky and rockets out of sight.
Lordsburg · NM, USA
A large stationary craft in the southern skies of New Mexico.
Benson · VT, USA
Red, green, and yellow object in the night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible "twinkling" star? PD))
New Holstein · WI, USA
DARK OBJECT MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST LITTLE OR NO LIGHT JUST ENOUGH TO OUTLINE THE CYLINDER SHAPED OBJECT. IN SIGHT LINE FOR SIX SECONDS.
Dunfermline (UK/Scotland) · United Kingdom
I was in my garden when a shiny metallic object caught my eye. The sky was blue and there were no clouds. The object seemed to be spinn
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
SILVER BULLET UFO HOVERING STATIONARY IN BROOKLYN SKY, THEN VANISHED!
Nashville · TN, USA
Cylinder, shape surrounded by mist, chased by black helicpter.
Clayton · NC, USA
Saw two white light 'sticks' with blue and red lights at night moving in a horizontal plane across sky with no sound being made.
Corpus Christi · TX, USA
Multiple event over 10 years.
St. Thomas (U. S. Virgin Islands) · U. S. Virgin Islands
Saw the ufo and it was obvious that it was extraordinary and not of this physics
Middleton · WI, USA
Hover for a few minutes, was shiny silver, sun reflects on it. moves slowly like gliding. no sound. after it was gone seen orbs of ligh