Radford, VA, USA
Black triangle, small (maybe 4-6 feet to a side,possibly smaller), lights on the corner, flying NE along I-81.Seen from the south bound
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-02-10
- Where
- Radford, VA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- Minutes
- Geo
- 37.132, -80.576 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-radford-va-2016-694bff
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
- Radford, VA has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 120 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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