UFOMYST
CaseSphere2011

Unknown, VA, USA

viewed only for seconds-red glowing light on the surface of the water

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-04-04
Where
Unknown, VA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 to 7 seconds
Geo
—
Slug
sphere-over-unknown-va-2011-c65159
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Unknown, VA.
  • This case is one of 100 Virginia reports filed in 2011.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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