CaseLight1996
Big Stone Gap, VA, USA
1 LIGHT SEPARATES INTO 3 & HOVERS OVER TREE, THEN COMBINE & DISAPPEAR.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-04-15
- Where
- Big Stone Gap, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 36.882, -82.747 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-big-stone-gap-va-1996-870eae
In context
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Big Stone Gap, VA.
- This case is one of 15 Virginia reports filed in 1996.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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