Richmond, VA, USA
UFO sighting near Short Pump, VA stationary egg/box shaped object with three lights
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-07-26
- Where
- Richmond, VA, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 3
- Geo
- 37.554, -77.460 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-richmond-va-2006-5f56f0
Part of a wave
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
- One of 125 documented reports from Richmond, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 68 sightings in 2006.
- Egg sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
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