Norfolk, VA, USA
800 foot wide Boomerang shaped UFO floats over head at treetop level, with humming sound-next to Norfolk NAB, Virginia
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-12
- Where
- Norfolk, VA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 36.847, -76.285 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-norfolk-va-1997-4b8b85
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- One of 52 documented reports from Norfolk, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 23 sightings in 1997.
- Chevron sightings ran at 1.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.1%).
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.