Smithfield, VA, USA
Flashing lights in the sky. Moving way too fast to be an aircraft and made no sound.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-05-26
- Where
- Smithfield, VA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 4 mins
- Geo
- 36.982, -76.631 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-smithfield-va-2006-86d904
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
- Smithfield, VA shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 68 reports came from Virginia in 2006.
Report
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