CaseLight1996
Damascus, VA, USA
1996 SIGHTING IN DAMASCUS, VA. WHILE CAMPING IN THE CHEROKEE NATIONAL FOREST.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-10-11
- Where
- Damascus, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 60 SEC.
- Geo
- 36.634, -81.784 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-damascus-va-1996-1d3ded
In context
- Damascus, VA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from Virginia in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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