NUFORC Reports for Shape cylinder

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Media	Explanation
Open	02/09/1996 17:50	Langley	WA	USA	Cylinder	Five witnesses observe long, slender, tubular obj. w/ pointed nose moving N to S in W sky. Descends, disappears behind Olympic Mtns.	02/09/1996
Open	02/09/1996 18:25	Granite Falls	WA	USA	Cylinder	Woman repts. 4 white flashing lights in a straight-line formation passing very rapidly W to E to the north of her home. Exclnt report.	02/09/1996
Open	05/28/1996 23:10	Mindon	UT	USA	Cylinder	Young woman sees a "bright green cylinder, illuminated from within" go streaking across the sky. Disappears behind Hogsback Mtn.	06/03/1996
Open	01/17/1997 02:00	Sydney (NSW, Australia)		Australia	Cylinder	A long, rotating tube like object, covered with small windows. Perhaps 50m long. With two antennae like objects protruding from the fro	01/16/1997
Open	03/15/1988 19:30	Gallup (~10 miles west of on I-40)	NM	USA	Cylinder	Driving west on I-40 just after dark, saw lights strobing over median of hwy. Thought it might be a helicopter, but there was no noise	02/17/1997
Open	04/07/1997 05:30	Colorado Springs	CO	USA	Cylinder	Dark. Between Fontaine and Drennan Rd. A tall, brightly litobject descended in field near reservoir west of Powers Rd. Tieredwith mul	04/10/1997
Open	07/01/1986 17:00	Halandri (Near Athens) (Greece)		Greece	Cylinder	250 foot silver cylinder	06/14/1997
Open	06/07/1997 22:30	St. Louis	MO	USA	cylinder	A long, finger-shaped, metal object hovered over the creek behind my house for several minutes.	06/18/1997
Open	06/21/1997 09:45	Phoenix	AZ	USA	cylinder	white cylendar, stationary, no markings, no lights, no sound.	06/22/1997
Open	08/15/1976 16:30	McDermitt (NE of; Lat 42 05'N Lon 117 00'W	NV	USA	cylinder	5 witness long tubular shaped object moving S to N low to the ground with 6-7 oval lights. The first and last lights were colored red,	06/23/1997
Open	06/07/1997 22:00	Quincy	MA	USA	cylinder	I WAS RIDING IN THE CAR WITH MY MOM WHEN A STRANGE MISSILE SHAPED OBJECT FLY OVER THE ROAD AT LOW ALTITUDE	06/25/1997
Open	07/20/1966 14:30	Chosica (Peru)		Peru	Cylinder	watched a cylindrical, clearly metallic, resembling shiny aluminum, somewhat rounded object hovering on nearby hills, moving pendulum-l	07/13/1997
Open	12/13/1996 20:00	Karnak	IL	USA	Cylinder	At about 8:00 at night I was sitting outside staring at the stars when I saw a streak of green light followed by an explosion.Right bef	07/14/1997
Open	07/11/1997 15:25	Allison Park (Hampton Twp.)	PA	USA	Cylinder	As I was driving near the site of a radio tower under construction, I noticed a black, barrel shaped object hovering near it. I stopped	07/14/1997
Open	07/24/1997 21:45	Murphysboro	IL	USA	Cylinder	The witnessed reported to me she saw a irradescent,green,cylindar object move horizontal across the sky going South to North. She first	07/27/1997
Open	07/03/1997 03:00	Brentwood	TN	USA	Cylinder	Extremely bright white cylinder looking object east to west direction saw from horizon to horizon through trees	08/01/1997
Open	08/03/1997 19:15	St. Louis	MO	USA	Cylinder	Observed cylinder shaped object hovering 30feet or less over hwy 40 west 2 miles west of downtown. Object was dark colored, no lights,	08/15/1997
Open	10/23/1997 16:30	Billings	MT	USA	cylinder	Dark gray, cylindrical, object about 100m wide and 40m tall. Hovered in circle, about 20 miles away.	10/24/1997
Open	02/10/1998 20:00	Danbury	CT	USA	Cylinder	While taking an evening walk i saw what i thought was a shooting star. It stopped in the sky and just hovered there. It was cylander s	02/11/1998
Open	03/12/1998 04:30	Red River	NM	USA	Cylinder	There were 2 extremely bright objects stationary in the sky, side by side for over 2 hours south of Red River	03/14/1998
Open	08/01/1975 18:00	Ravenna (near West Branch State Park)	OH	USA	Cylinder	5 of us were standing outside talking, I felt as though someone was looking at me, I turned around and saw it it was'nt moving, then st	03/15/1998
Open	11/15/1974 15:40	Val Caron (Canada)	ON	Canada	Cylinder	The craft first caught my attention by it's size and lack of noise since the Sudbury airport is so near.The object appeared to construc	03/18/1998
Open	02/25/1998 05:45	Stouthill (community, nearest city 30 miles, TN)	TN	USA	Cylinder	AN OBJECT OF ABOUT 150FT IN LENTH[ESTAMETE]WITH 4 BRIGHT LIGHTS IN PERFECT ALIGNMENT ALONG ITS BOTTOM.IT WAS HOVERING APP. 100FTABOVE T	04/01/1998
Open	03/08/1998 12:00	Wichita	KS	USA	Cylinder	On lunch break, heading east in car. Stopped at light, saw object in distance above the horizon. An airliner was heading south, away fr	04/07/1998
Open	05/15/1962 21:00	Acoma	NM	USA	Cylinder	On this date my Mother and cousin and I were traveling west on the interstate40 ,between albuquerque and the lava fields outside acoma.	04/25/1998
Open	07/26/1970 23:30	Cottonwood (30 min.west of Sedona)	AZ	USA	Cylinder	My family and I were sitting on our front porch, faceing west about 10:30 p.m. As dusk was turning to night we abserved a bright light	05/01/1998
Open	05/25/1998 12:05	Madison	WI	USA	Cylinder	2 events separated by about 3-5 minutes	05/25/1998
Open	09/22/1998 17:00	Poway	CA	USA	Cylinder	Vertical cylinder, gold and hot, bright light on the bottom.	09/24/1998
Open	09/09/1998 01:25	Tomah	WI	USA	Cylinder	looking E, trvin N 2 S. 45 deg up, 60deg long.started as cylinder white/blue then stoped for 1/2 sec then 8 little spheres apeared	09/25/1998
Open	09/23/1998 00:00	Highway 25 (Bronte Rd, w of, between Britannia Rd.) (Canada)	ON	Canada	Cylinder	Sort of resembled a helicopter, but back part was tubular. One main bright light, red & green lights close on each side. Main one dippe	09/25/1998
Open	09/04/1998 20:45	Blue River	OR	USA	Cylinder	While outside watching the skies I observed what at first I believed to have been a satellite travelling in a northwestern direction. I	09/04/1998
Open	06/21/1998 22:30	Corpus Christi	TX	USA	Cylinder	Gentlemen I have always been someone who relies on experiential knowledge. I have always felt that the likelyhood of other intelligence	06/22/1998
Open	06/22/1998 22:30	Santee	SC	USA	Cylinder	I was fishing and as I looked up I saw 3 cylinder-shaped objects in a triangle formation. They had a wierd white glow to them. That (	06/23/1998
Open	02/07/1998 22:23	Paraparaumu (Kapiti Island) (New Zealand)		New Zealand	Cylinder	4 cylinder shaped green and pinkish flashing objects appeard from behind Kapiti Island, seemed to stay static for a short while before	07/03/1998
Open	06/01/1956 20:00	Memphis	TN	USA	Cylinder	Object was glowing dull orange bent cylinder. Hovered noiselessly over RR tracks for a time, then took off straight up.	07/07/1998
Open	10/15/1980 19:00	National Forest	CO	USA	Cylinder	A green pencil-like object appeared from behind one hill only to disappear behind another. From - Fri Aug 21 11:38:01 1998 Received: fr	08/20/1998
Open	09/25/1998 12:15	Fire Island Pines (off Great South Bay)	NY	USA	Cylinder	While Kayaking in the Bay, I noticed a large black Cylinder rolling/floating in the sky, I pointed it out to a man on shore and a passi	09/26/1998
Open	10/10/1998 13:15	Elgin	IL	USA	Cylinder	While looking up at sky I noticed a bright light hovering above the sky. then I noticed a jet airliner traveling in the same area and I	10/10/1998
Open	11/06/1998 07:10	Bothell (north east Seattle area)	WA	USA	Cylinder	Two cylinder objects as if they were clouds at first. One seemed to "land" or fly VERY low, stop and wasn't to be seen agian. 4 other	11/06/1998
Open	11/14/1998 13:30	Marion	IA	USA	Cylinder	ten (10) white cylinder shaped objects flying in standard formattion, for appox. 5 minutes.	11/15/1998
Open		Marshville (about 3miles south of)	NC	USA	Cylinder	I was about 13 when I was laying down in a field looking at the partly cloudy sky. It was a windy day when the some of the cloud sepera	11/17/1998
Open	12/06/1998 18:45	Phoenix	AZ	USA	Cylinder	While working security I seen a object enter earths atmosphere, then glide over mountains east of Phoenix.	12/08/1998
Open	11/01/1996 12:00	Vilonia	AR	USA	Cylinder	Cylinder-shaped object decended and began circling a nearby cell-phone tower. It shortly vanished.	01/14/1999
Open	06/22/1993 14:00	Colonial Beach	VA	USA	Cylinder	Disapeering flying object	02/01/1999
Open	02/17/1999 17:00	Loxahatchee	FL	USA	Cylinder	I saw the object in the sky about 2 miles away, I pointed over and told my dad that he would see it once we passed a group of trees, bu	02/19/1999
Open	01/15/1970 21:00	Hemet	CA	USA	Cylinder	Large at least 20 feet metallic ball, blue grey (but it did change colors),like liquid metal, outside of my Mothers house just off the	02/24/1999
Open	03/23/1999 18:15	Cross Lanes	WV	USA	Cylinder	Noticed a very shiny object at a very high altitude that looked like a strange jet. It left a contrial and moved across the sky at abou	03/25/1999
Open	10/13/1994 19:30	Farmington	MO	USA	Cylinder	I spotted what I thought was a bright landing light of a larger than usual aircraft for our airport.	03/12/1999
Open	03/17/1999 20:15	Vernon	NJ	USA	Cylinder	Saw 1 UFO hovering over Mountain Creek Ski Resort. Stopped my car on side of road and got out to view.Dark clear night sky. Craft was l	03/17/1999
Open	04/25/1999 23:30	Paia	HI	USA	Cylinder	cylinder shaped red glowing craft moving very fast from the north to the west	05/03/1999
Open	05/02/1999 23:00	Lebanon	MO	USA	Cylinder	Hovered over vacant hospital for approx. 3 min., no noise and 3 visible lights: Blue, Yellow and Green. Then sped off and chased by ano	05/03/1999
Open	02/12/1999 08:01	Mary Esther	FL	USA	Cylinder	I walked outside my garage and saw a ufo in the sky coming towards me with white flashing lights	05/04/1999
Open	01/13/1999 23:50	Karachi (Pakistan)		Pakistan	Cylinder	bluit lights going west to south	04/29/1999
Open	06/01/1998 00:00	Andrews	NC	USA	Cylinder	clear day seen object in western sky...2 military aircraft flying together toward the object	05/07/1999
Open	05/12/1999 21:20	Salem	OR	USA	Cylinder	3 of us standing in a large open area walking dogs. Watching some airplanes and than I tuned and saw the cylinder craft which flew int	05/12/1999
Open	05/20/1999 07:35	Roanoke Rapids	NC	USA	Cylinder	I was in my wife's graduation with some friends. Around 7:35 my friends were taping the event. When I asked them to look up they refuse	05/20/1999
Open	05/26/1999 13:00	Bellevue/Mercer Island (between, westbound on I-90)	WA	USA	Cylinder	Silver rod the size of a 1.5" section of slender ballpoint at arm's length. Rose rapidly at 30 degrees for 5 seconds. Lost to view.	05/26/1999
Open	05/30/1999 20:20	Vestal	NY	USA	Cylinder	Observed silvery tubular craft with bright white lights along the sides. No sound or vapor trail, no wings or tail structure.	05/31/1999
Open	05/31/1999 19:15	Colorado Springs	CO	USA	Cylinder	Was heading to the store at 1900 hrs saw a non plane like craft going North to South glowing whiteish observed with Bino's def. not a p	05/31/1999
Open	11/11/1997 05:30	Columbus	OH	USA	Cylinder	huge cylindrical lights, thousands of feet long, blink off and then clusters of much smaller light blue and light orange-pink ship ligh	06/18/1999
Open	06/18/1999 20:17	Vestal	NY	USA	Cylinder	Observed similar long tubular object on 05/30/99. As it turned, the sun's rays reflected from a row of at least 20 windows along the s	06/25/1999
Open	05/01/1985 03:00	Northern Exumas (3 miles east of) (Bahamas)		Bahamas	Cylinder	At about 3 AM I saw a light heading toward me which had no other navigation lights. It droopped a cylinder obliquily and turned upward	06/27/1999
Open	06/20/1998 20:00	Medford	MA	USA	Cylinder	I was going to Staples(the store) and all of a sudden I saw a bright light like a star appeared.It was moving in a funky way. Then a p	06/29/1999
Open	05/16/1998 03:00	Wheat Ridge	CO	USA	Cylinder	i was coming home, and i saw a bright light in the clouds. it was cylinder shapped with a pointed edge.then it dissipeared behind the c	07/05/1999
Open	06/24/1999 21:50	Bouse	AZ	USA	Cylinder	On 6/24/99 facing south, between 21:50-22:00, saw a cylinder w/domed head appear suddenly above Earth and towards the Moon to disappear	07/05/1999
Open	07/04/1997 21:00	Phoenix	AZ	USA	Cylinder	a large black object kind of like a shadow passed over head while we were waiting for the fire works to start	07/21/1999
Open	04/11/1996 12:44	Santa Cruz	CA	USA	Cylinder	Strange craft observed over Santa Cruz CA.	07/27/1999
Open	08/11/1999 12:22	Messina (Italy)		Italy	Cylinder	My mistake of using no filter in fotographing sun eclypse with a digit camera (Casio) resulted in pictures with no shadow onto the sun.	08/16/1999
Open	09/17/1979 20:10	Fayetteville	NC	USA	Cylinder	Missing time involved. Other witness remembers nothing. Tractor beam taking water aboard craft. 5 miles downrange, appeared 300 feet	08/27/1999
Open	09/07/1999 12:15	Gallatin	TN	USA	Cylinder	I was driving in a new subdivision when I saw an object flying slowly in the sky. The color and shape of the object was unlike any airc	09/07/1999
Open	09/03/1999 21:20	Bloomington	IN	USA	Cylinder	Bright white cylinder moving swiftly toward the horizon. 4 witneses saw the same thing from 3 locations at the same time.	09/08/1999
Open	09/10/1999 13:35	Fair Oaks/Sacramento	CA	USA	Cylinder	Saw a pearly white craft - cylinder in shape with a silver belly the whole length of craft. Flying from west to east, clear skys. Jus	09/10/1999
Open	08/10/1973 21:00	Saskatchewan (eastern --- rural) (Canada)	SK	Canada	Cylinder	Yellow illuminated cylinder in eastern Saskatchewan -- 8/1973	09/12/1999
Open	06/28/1999 21:30	Cedar Park	TX	USA	Cylinder	Watching the full moon with binoculars(6/28/99 9:30 cst) I witnessed two objects cross left to right,steady speed,appeared close to the	09/12/1999
Open	08/01/1970 21:30	Palmdale	CA	USA	Cylinder	A flaming cylindrical object crossed the entire sky, north to south, in about 3 min.	09/13/1999
Open	09/02/1999 20:30	Central Lake	MI	USA	Cylinder	Saw shiny metallic object in NW sky at sunset, high on horizon. Appeared to be tilted at 45 degree angle, hovering high above horizon.	09/14/1999
Open	09/14/1999 16:30	Federal Way	WA	USA	Cylinder	Cylindrical, or cigar-shaped, bright bronze object with bright orange "appendage" underneath stationary at 80 degrees in SE-SSE clear b	09/17/1999
Open	12/24/1998 21:00	Hathaway	LA	USA	Cylinder	It was Christmas Eve "98. My girlfriend was leaving my house and I walked her outside to her car. All of a sudden, we both saw a cylind	09/19/1999
Open	10/20/1999 19:00	Temple	TX	USA	Cylinder	Just after sunset saw bright glowing object in western sky at 30 deg. above horizon. Smaller bright lights appeared and disappeared ne	10/21/1999
Open	10/21/1999 21:00	Maryville/Sevierville	TN	USA	Cylinder	I heard area coyotes and dogs howling very loudly and when I went out side I saw a cylindar shaped object with lights in a repeated cir	10/22/1999
Open	10/23/1999 18:00	Erie	CO	USA	Cylinder	Someone pointed out an object in the western sky facing the Rocky mtns that appeared to be not moving. Couldn't tell what it was.	10/24/1999
Open	10/22/1999 12:00	Kansas City/Excelsior Springs,	MO	USA	Cylinder	A large white object moving slowly at cloud level that was over an aproach corridor to KCI airport. It slowly entered a large cloud and	10/22/1999
Open	10/26/1999 06:00	Cookstown	NJ	USA	Cylinder	the object was moving very slow flashing red and green lights other aircraft were moving going on there normal route i looked at	10/26/1999
Open	10/26/1999 14:45	Oshkosh	WI	USA	Cylinder	On my way to work I was traveling south on highway 41 between Oshkosh and Fond Du Lac, Wi. I was watching a plane high in the air spray	10/27/1999
Open	10/23/1999 21:00	Hayward	CA	USA	Cylinder	Rectangular gray object glided silently across the night sky and disappeared behind a cloud	10/31/1999
Open	10/21/1999 11:55	Kansas City	MO	USA	Cylinder	I and four other people watched a very large cylinder slowly move across the noon sky and enter a long, narrow cloud through one end, n	11/07/1999
Open	10/31/1999 00:30	Houston	TX	USA	Cylinder	Object with bright lights(white) on both ends, with a red in blue light just behind the white lights on both ends. Moving slowly north	11/09/1999
Open	09/10/1987 18:00	Conway	AR	USA	Cylinder	Heard a rumbling in the sky and then saw a yellow streak just above the treeline.Looked to have a yellowish color. With either red writ	11/15/1999
Open	11/17/1999 13:00	Fort Worth	TX	USA	Cylinder	I was driving east in SW Fort Worth when I saw a large object in the sky in front of me. All of a sudden it just disappeared and then	11/17/1999
Open	11/16/1999 14:00	Springfield	MO	USA	Cylinder	My wife and I, along with passing motorists, observed a UFO that appeared like an airliner except it had no wings, tail or visible mean	11/17/1999
Open	11/26/1998 14:00	McKinney	TX	USA	Cylinder	Cylindrical object seem moving rapdily through the sky, east to west.	11/21/1999
Open	11/20/1999 23:00	Sudbury (Canada)	ON	Canada	Cylinder	Seen a cylinder blue above the Sudbury area for about 1 hours and half, the description is very complicated because of smog night and a	11/21/1999
Open	12/04/1999 15:30	Shanghai (China)		China	Cylinder	This report is seen in http://www.shanghaidaily.com/ which has a picture of the said UFO as well, Video footage is available but not fo	12/05/1999
Open	12/16/1999 09:50	Pico Rivera	CA	USA	Cylinder	cylindrical object flying slowly north to south at arox 2000 ft, we (two of us) watched until it disappeard over the san gabriel mounta	12/16/1999
Open	09/04/1999 08:40	Indianapolis	IN	USA	Cylinder	I saw a smoky gray cylinder with blue vertical stripes dividing the cylinder into thirds. I have no idea of the altitude, since I don'	12/27/1999
Open	01/05/2000 09:50	Exton	PA	USA	Cylinder	3 cylinder objects moving east to west, 9:50 am, no sound, white with two rings in black on each craft. No wings visible.	01/05/2000
Open	01/01/2000 01:00	Washington, D.C.	DC	USA	Cylinder	Near end of 1AM fireworks while standing outside Metro station in DC observed at least 5 cylindrical things moving at high speed across	01/05/2000
Open	12/16/1999 10:30	Greensboro	NC	USA	Cylinder	a cylinder shaped object,say three miles away.heading into a cloud bank. a jet, it looked like millitary jetwas off to the right of it.	01/10/2000
Open	01/17/2000 20:30	Three Forks	MT	USA	Cylinder	WE WHERE DRIVING EAST ON HIGH 2 INTO 3FORKS MONTANA WHEN WE SAW AN OBJECT COME INTO SIGHT FROM THE N.W. IT WAS HEADING S.E. IT WAS A LO	01/21/2000
Open	01/28/2000 07:30	Beaverton	OR	USA	Cylinder	AS we left our home I spotted two large bright shapes in the southwestern sky. With outstretched arm the two shapes were lentil size. B	01/28/2000
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Media	Explanation