Makkah childhood luminous cross recollection

A submitter recalled a pearly luminous tubular form with a cross-like middle before sunrise in childhood near Mecca. The account was filed in 2026 and places the memory broadly between 1954 and 1957, although the form supplies a specific 1956 date. The precise day is not established by the narrative. Source: National UFO Reporting Center, report 196776. This account is a report of claimed observations, not independent confirmation. Visual or radar observation without a narrative establishing beings, abduction, intentional contact, or physical effects. Map position: Approximate locality anchor from GeoNames; not an exact incident coordinate. Original location wording retained. Record notes: Retrospective childhood memory spans 1954-1957; exact date not established.