CaseCircle1984
Portsmouth, VA, USA
circular object headed towards the sky
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1984-07-14
- Where
- Portsmouth, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 36.835, -76.298 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-portsmouth-va-1984-4dc8f6
In context
- Portsmouth, VA shows up 38 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Virginia in 1984.
- In the 1980s, 8.2% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.