CaseCircle2003
Abingdon, VA, USA
a large, perfectly round light, much larger and brighter than any star
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-09-15
- Where
- Abingdon, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 36.710, -81.977 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-abingdon-va-2003-8ce364
In context
- Abingdon, VA has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 67 reports from Virginia.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.