UFOMYST
CaseChanging2020

Richmond, VA, USA

This tight shape fanned out into 6 to 7 individual dimly lit red lights in a downward V-shaped formation traveling horizontally.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-09-28
Where
Richmond, VA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5-10 seconds
Geo
37.554, -77.460 · exact
Slug
changing-over-richmond-va-2020-427c99
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 125 documented reports from Richmond, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 106 sightings in 2020.
  • Changing sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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