Culpepper, VA, USA
Strange object observed in the sky, hovering for about an hour and a half, then vanished completely.
Report quality: Moderate41/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-09-17
- Where
- Culpepper, VA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- Hour and a half, approx.
- Geo
- 35.818, -86.143 · fallback
- Slug
- unknown-over-culpepper-va-2006-d9f4ae
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 1 reports logged in Culpepper, VA.
- This case is one of 68 Virginia reports filed in 2006.
Report
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