UFOMYST
CaseCircle2008

Virginia Beach, VA, USA

3 starish kind of things, orangish, in a formation of a triangle. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-28
Where
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5-10 mins
Geo
36.853, -75.978 · exact
Slug
circle-over-virginia-beach-va-2008-5b4b5f
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

  • Virginia Beach, VA has 176 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 100 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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