CaseOval2021
Coeburn, VA, USA
It wasn’t a shooting star or plane I know what I saw
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-03-22
- Where
- Coeburn, VA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 36.944, -82.464 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-coeburn-va-2021-9d5a0f
Wave
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 shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 59 reports came from Virginia in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.