UFOMYST
CaseDisk2009

Harrisonburg, VA, USA

Very bright disk shape eastern sky Harrisonburg. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-19
Where
Harrisonburg, VA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1 minute 30 sec
Geo
38.450, -78.869 · exact
Slug
disk-over-harrisonburg-va-2009-e47bf2
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Harrisonburg, VA has 22 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 82 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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