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CaseTeardrop2016

Virginia Beach, VA, USA

The craft shaped like a tear drop flew over my car and stopped and took off. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-28
Where
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
36.853, -75.978 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-virginia-beach-va-2016-4e6771
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

  • Virginia Beach, VA shows up 176 times across the archive.
  • 120 reports came from Virginia in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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