UFOMYST
CaseChanging2022

Roanoke, VA, USA

4 Silent lights moved in a circular pattern together and then apart. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights. PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2022-01-14
Where
Roanoke, VA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
—
Geo
37.271, -79.941 · exact
Slug
changing-over-roanoke-va-2022-6cef3d
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

  • Roanoke, VA shows up 59 times across the archive.
  • 22 reports came from Virginia in 2022.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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