CaseCircle1963
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
4 glowing circles 40 ft in diameter flying in rigid formation - aerial acrobatics 100 ft off the beach for > 15 minutes -many witnesses
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-07-15
- Where
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 36.853, -75.978 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-virginia-beach-va-1963-c37447
In context
- This is one of 176 reports logged in Virginia Beach, VA.
- This case is one of 3 Virginia reports filed in 1963.
- Circle craft made up 10.1% of 1960s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
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.