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7 cases where witnesses described a cylinder, from 519 BC to 2024.

519 BC

Zechariah's Flying Roll (Zechariah 5)

Zechariah was one of the prophets active after the return from Babylonian exile, under the Persian king Darius I. His book records eight visions seen in a single night…

DocumentedScripture; no investigation
1561

Nuremberg Sky Battle, 1561

In April 1561 Hans Glaser, a Nuremberg 'letter-painter' and printer, published an illustrated broadsheet describing a terrifying spectacle around sunrise on 14 April…

DocumentedContemporary broadsheet presenting a divine warning; no investigation
1965

Kecksburg, Pennsylvania

Just before dusk on 9 December 1965, a brilliant fireball streaked across the sky from Michigan and Ontario toward Pennsylvania, dropping reports of hot debris, grass…

DisputedBlue Book: Astronomical (meteor)
1977

Colares and Operação Prato

In 1977 people in the fishing communities around Colares, at the mouth of the Amazon, began telling of lights that came down at night and attacked them. Fishermen spoke…

UnresolvedBrazilian Air Force, Operação Prato (1977): operation closed after…
1996

Yukon Mass Sighting

On a clear, cold night in December 1996, people along a roughly 120-mile stretch of the Klondike Highway in Yukon reported a huge row of lights moving across the sky…

DisputedNo official investigation; civilian investigation by Martin Jasek (UFO…
2023

Three objects shot down over Alaska, Yukon and Lake Huron

In the week after the Chinese balloon was shot down, NORAD tuned its radars to catch slower, smaller targets, and three more objects appeared. On 10 February an F-22…

UnresolvedWhite House / NORAD: unidentified objects, assessed most likely…
2024

AARO FY2024 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP

On 14 November 2024, the day after the Exposing the Truth hearing, the Defense Department and ODNI released AARO's consolidated annual report for fiscal 2024. Between May…

UnresolvedAARO: no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology…

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