UFOMYST
CaseFireball2021

Clifton Forge, VA, USA

Bright orange fireball loiters for 4 hours over rural town.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-07-14
Where
Clifton Forge, VA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
37.816, -79.824 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-clifton-forge-va-2021-4b0eda
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…

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In context

  • Clifton Forge, VA shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 59 reports came from Virginia in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.