UFOMYST
CaseFormation2009

Salem, VA, USA

Fast moving formation that looked much like the London sighting.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (64 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-03-25
Where
Salem, VA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2-3 sec
Geo
37.293, -80.055 · exact
Slug
formation-over-salem-va-2009-e5577e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Salem, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 82 sightings in 2009.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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