UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2017

Roanoke, VA, USA

4/11/17 - Four star/planet-like (brightness) UFOs traveling from Roanoke, VA, area due north. Changing direction often.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-04-11
Where
Roanoke, VA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
37.271, -79.941 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-roanoke-va-2017-268c3d
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

  • One of 59 documented reports from Roanoke, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 104 sightings in 2017.

Report

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