UFOMYST
CaseCircle2005

Chester, VA, USA

Object hovered and shot off at high rate of speed and then disappered

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-04-07
Where
Chester, VA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 min
Geo
37.357, -77.442 · exact
Slug
circle-over-chester-va-2005-5fec8f
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 9 documented reports from Chester, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 75 sightings in 2005.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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