CaseUnknown2012
Roanoke, VA, USA
This was brownish oddly shapped craft following under an airlplane.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-28
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-roanoke-va-2012-8b8647
Wave
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
- One of 59 documented reports from Roanoke, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 150 sightings in 2012.
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.