Coeburn, VA, USA
Two white lights traveling in lateral directions at high rate of speed seen by two observers in extreme SW VA during meteor shower.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-11
- Where
- Coeburn, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 36.944, -82.464 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-coeburn-va-2012-be3f6b
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Coeburn, VA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 150 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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