CaseSphere2004

Suffolk, VA, USA

A sunny afternoon with Blue sky and a few white clouds. temp. upper 40s. coming out of a cloud were these flying objects(White in colo

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-02-03
Where
Suffolk, VA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
6 seconds
Geo
36.728, -76.585 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-suffolk-va-2004-aea271
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…

In context

  • Suffolk, VA shows up 20 times across the archive.
  • 55 reports came from Virginia in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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