CaseCircle1985
Dayton, VA, USA
Baseball size yellow ball of light right outside my window, dancing, then rapidly shot into night sky.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1985-08-05
- Where
- Dayton, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.415, -78.939 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-dayton-va-1985-618181
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Dayton, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 6 sightings in 1985.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.2% during the 1980s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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