Lynchburg, VA, USA
((HOAX??)) Red ball with fire over Lynchburg, Va. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Low28/100
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
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2017-03-04
- Where
- Lynchburg, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 37.414, -79.142 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lynchburg-va-2017-b01c97
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
- Lynchburg, VA shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 104 reports came from Virginia in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% 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.