UFOMYST
CaseOval2014

Portsmouth, VA, USA

Was @ the light on college drive heading east to 164, look up at an angle and seen what appeared to be a white/shiny object appear, as

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-12-17
Where
Portsmouth, VA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
36.835, -76.298 · exact
Slug
oval-over-portsmouth-va-2014-f4c9f1
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Portsmouth, VA has 38 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 184 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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