CaseLight1981
Christiansburg, VA, USA
Observed light only, first slowly moving, appeared to be small private plane.Then stationary, moved in circle while changing colors ( c
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-07-08
- Where
- Christiansburg, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5-10 min
- Geo
- 37.130, -80.409 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-christiansburg-va-1981-5c2a46
In context
- Christiansburg, VA shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Virginia in 1981.
- In the 1980s, 11% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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