Roanoke, VA, USA
Glowing orbs over 81. ((anonymous report))
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (21 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-09-16
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-roanoke-va-2017-1016c3
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…
Local cluster
Roanoke, VA logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2017.
In context
- One of 59 documented reports from Roanoke, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 104 sightings in 2017.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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