CaseDisk2013

Richmond (south of), VA, USA

My daughter and I were traveling on route 95 north during a storm when a disc shaped bright light with lightning shooting around it. Ha

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-07
Where
Richmond (south of), VA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
37.554, -77.460 · exact
Slug
disk-over-richmond-south-of-va-2013-d8ec15
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Richmond (south of), VA.
  • This case is one of 205 Virginia reports filed in 2013.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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