CaseSphere1996
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Two witnesses, no more than 40 feet from bright white sphere 3 1/2 - 4 feet in diameter blocking our way on rd.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-08-30
- Where
- Blacksburg, VA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 1/2 Minutes
- Geo
- 37.230, -80.414 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-blacksburg-va-1996-a79349
In context
- Blacksburg, VA has 12 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 15 reports from Virginia.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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