Chesterfield Matoaca, VA, USA
Very Long, 100-150 yds long. Looked like a crane arm. Green and red lights on each end hovering vertically at 65-70 mph Silently, 50 fe
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-02-03
- Where
- Chesterfield Matoaca, VA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- rectangle-over-chesterfield-matoaca-va-2015-8fc65e
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
- Chesterfield Matoaca, VA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 151 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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