CaseDisk2004

Charlottesville, VA, USA

I met my friend at this bridge that we always meet at. After we met and I was walking back to my house. I got to the road and I saw the

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-04-12
Where
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
about 10 secs
Geo
38.029, -78.477 · exact
Slug
disk-over-charlottesville-va-2004-c99ec4
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…

In context

  • Charlottesville, VA shows up 36 times across the archive.
  • 55 reports came from Virginia in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

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.