UFOMYST
CaseChanging2017

Staunton, VA, USA

Next to Venus is a giant orb of multi-color light. ((NUFORC Note: Rocket launch from Wallops Island. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-06-29
Where
Staunton, VA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
38.150, -79.073 · exact
Slug
changing-over-staunton-va-2017-f53acd
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…

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In context

  • One of 19 documented reports from Staunton, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 104 sightings in 2017.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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