Roanoke, VA, USA
Large cigar shaped craft hovering motionless over a mountain near Spring Hollow Reservoir.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-03-03
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-roanoke-va-2020-667fed
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
- Roanoke, VA shows up 59 times across the archive.
- 106 reports came from Virginia in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 2.6% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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