Blacksburg, VA, USA
Three flying objects colored Orange / yellow lights , appeared on horizon floating erratic , two twirling down sparks streaking , one
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-09-28
- Where
- Blacksburg, VA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.230, -80.414 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-blacksburg-va-2019-cc3fbb
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
- Blacksburg, VA has 12 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 194 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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