"Basically,it's an underwater balloon. You've got two parts to it: You've got the balloon here - which is this long cylindrical object - and that's filled with a lighter-than-water substance, which is aviation gasoline."
VOA: standard.2010.06.21
Even the pot the cream was found in has a modern appearance, being acylindrical metal canister with a push-on lid.
Mechanics spot strange things stuck under cars all the time, but when 20-year-old Yasir Afifi's ride was put up on lifts his shop found something that hadn't been kicked up from the road: acylindrical tube connected to a device with an antenna.