UFOMYST
CaseChevron2010

Charlottesville, VA, USA

((HOAX??)) alien acrobat, or new government plane? you tell me.

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2010-12-09
Where
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
at least 2 hours
Geo
38.029, -78.477 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-charlottesville-va-2010-b5b0ff
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 36 documented reports from Charlottesville, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 78 sightings in 2010.
  • Chevron sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.1%).

Report

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