UFOMYST
CaseCircle2005

Ashland, VA, USA

Verry large black ring/circle arose from a distance to one altitude and begun a steady coarse though the clouds.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-07-22
Where
Ashland, VA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 min
Geo
37.759, -77.480 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ashland-va-2005-63092e
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

  • Ashland, VA shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 75 reports came from Virginia in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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