UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

Saltville, VA, USA

Green sphere seen in saltville virginia and mountain city Tennessee

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-02-12
Where
Saltville, VA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3-4 sec
Geo
36.882, -81.762 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-saltville-va-2012-0da616
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…

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In context

  • Saltville, VA shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 150 reports came from Virginia in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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