Eastern Shore, VA, USA
((HOAX??)) Approaching from W at high speed low over road across Kings Highway, VA At first I thought it was a large sea bird.
Report quality: Low15/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2017-07-31
- Where
- Eastern Shore, VA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- chevron-over-eastern-shore-va-2017-1252df
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Eastern Shore, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 104 sightings in 2017.
- Chevron sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.1%).
Report
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