CaseLight1974
Bedford, VA, USA
A report from Bedford, VA in June 1974 described a strange light on a nearby mountain, followed by a power outage at the witness's house and the light passing over their vehicle, lasting 3 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (197 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-06-30
- Where
- Bedford, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 37.334, -79.523 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bedford-va-1974-390394
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Bedford, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 5 sightings in 1974.
- Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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