Mt. Rogers (near), VA, USA
Camping out on a clear night, I saw a white cone of light touch the ground from outer space.
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-02
- Where
- Mt. Rogers (near), VA, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 6-9 seconds
- Geo
- 36.660, -81.545 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-mt-rogers-near-va-2005-e0afbe
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Mt. Rogers (near), VA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 75 reports from Virginia.
- The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.
Report
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