Mechanicsville, VA, USA
Ball in the sky ((NUFORC Note: Rocket launch from Cape Canaveral. PD))
Report quality: Low26/100
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 (15 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2021-04-23
- Where
- Mechanicsville, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 37.609, -77.373 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-mechanicsville-va-2021-a94ab4
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
- Mechanicsville, VA has 13 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 59 reports from Virginia.
- The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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