CaseCylinder1980
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
A "cylinder [shaped] object” that had a “white light with a red dot” and was “over roof top” and then “went behind the houses."
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-01-23
- Where
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 20 Minutes
- Geo
- 36.853, -75.978 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-virginia-beach-va-1980-a76e23
In context
- One of 176 documented reports from Virginia Beach, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 7 sightings in 1980.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 2% during the 1980s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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