CaseChanging2005
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Large object in Virginia
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (24 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-09
- Where
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 10 min.
- Geo
- 36.853, -75.978 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-virginia-beach-va-2005-723519
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Virginia Beach, VA shows up 176 times across the archive.
- 75 reports came from Virginia in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.