CaseCircle1984
Winchester, VA, USA
I spent many hours looking at stars as preparation for navigation with a sailboat using a sextant
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1984-05-15
- Where
- Winchester, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 39.186, -78.163 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-winchester-va-1984-60c23a
In context
- Winchester, VA has 25 sightings on file here.
- 1984 brought 5 reports from Virginia.
- The 1980s skewed 8.2% circle reports; the archive-wide figure 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.