UFOMYST
CaseDisk1977

Elmont, VA, USA

silver disk near Elmont Elementary School in 1977

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-05-15
Where
Elmont, VA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
37.711, -77.492 · exact
Slug
disk-over-elmont-va-1977-729cfc
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Elmont, VA shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 2 reports came from Virginia in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 22.6% 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.