Richmond (City of), VA, USA
To the south of the moon I saw movement and there were approximately 8-10 faint white lights in a circle.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-01-21
- Where
- Richmond (City of), VA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- ~1 minute
- Geo
- 37.554, -77.460 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-richmond-city-of-va-2019-ba2fda
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
- Richmond (City of), VA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 194 reports came from Virginia in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Report
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