Roanoke, VA, USA
Light over airport. Hover for a few seconds and took off due N out of sight in seconds... Very low; no sound. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-09-29
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-roanoke-va-2017-3909c1
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…
Local cluster
September 2017 was a busy month for Roanoke, VA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 59 reports logged in Roanoke, VA.
- This case is one of 104 Virginia reports filed in 2017.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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