UFOMYST
CaseDisk1997

Virginia, VA, USA

Not so much an object as a close encounter, he told me my mission.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-15
Where
Virginia, VA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
???
Geo
36.918, -82.345 · exact
Slug
disk-over-virginia-va-1997-0499db
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Virginia, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 23 sightings in 1997.
  • Disk sightings ran at 7.1% during the 1990s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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