UFOMYST
CaseLight2010

Amherst, VA, USA

Proof positive of UFOs among us.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-10-01
Where
Amherst, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
several hours
Geo
37.585, -79.051 · exact
Slug
light-over-amherst-va-2010-6ac8d7
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Amherst, VA reports filed in October 2010.

In context

  • Amherst, VA shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 78 reports came from Virginia in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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