UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Hillsville, VA, USA

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Report quality: Moderate52/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (20 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-07-04
Where
Hillsville, VA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Two minutes
Geo
36.763, -80.735 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hillsville-va-2012-233803
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…

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In context

  • Hillsville, VA has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 150 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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