UFOMYST
CaseDisk2011

Bristol, VA, USA

Large donut-shaped craft with lights, used so much force when moving that it moved trees out of the way.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-30
Where
Bristol, VA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
36.596, -82.188 · exact
Slug
disk-over-bristol-va-2011-f4d0ca
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…

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In context

  • One of 17 documented reports from Bristol, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 100 sightings in 2011.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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