Virginia Beach, VA, USA
My father and I saw a domed flying saucer very clear whizz directly in front of us on the oceanfront
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-12
- Where
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 36.853, -75.978 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-virginia-beach-va-1965-7c3081
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Virginia Beach, VA has 176 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 6 reports from Virginia.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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