UFOMYST
CaseLight2013

Roanoke, VA, USA

UFO flap in Roanoke, VA - almost daily

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-06-05
Where
Roanoke, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
<1 minute
Geo
37.271, -79.941 · exact
Slug
light-over-roanoke-va-2013-a17b43
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 59 reports logged in Roanoke, VA.
  • This case is one of 205 Virginia reports filed in 2013.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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