Front Royal, VA, USA
Comet like object with attached long white light trailing behind it, streaking across sky
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-06-25
- Where
- Front Royal, VA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 20-30 seconds
- Geo
- 38.918, -78.194 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-front-royal-va-2012-47e32b
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…
In context
- This is one of 18 reports logged in Front Royal, VA.
- This case is one of 150 Virginia reports filed in 2012.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
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.