CaseSphere2001
Roanoke, VA, USA
orb-shaped ball of light that sat silent & still, then zoomed upward and out of sight.
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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-18
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30-45 secs.
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-roanoke-va-2001-8b2a9b
In context
- Roanoke, VA shows up 59 times across the archive.
- 63 reports came from Virginia in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.