CaseCircle2000
Alton, VA, USA
i saw a gold orb in the south sky about 30 degrees up the horizon. It was 1/2 the size the full moon. it seem to slightly pulsate. a
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-02-15
- Where
- Alton, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 36.573, -79.003 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-alton-va-2000-9cbf3a
In context
- Alton, VA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 26 reports came from Virginia in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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