UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2018

Virginia Beach, VA, USA

Blue orb, white triangle with looks to be imbedded faces in video screen shot. ((NUFORC Note: Possible lens flare?? PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2018-02-10
Where
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
?
Geo
36.853, -75.978 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-virginia-beach-va-2018-ead0c4
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Virginia Beach, VA in February 2018 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Virginia Beach, VA has 176 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 74 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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