UFOMYST
Casecircle1997

Norfolk, VA, USA

Green, luminous round object that had a dark vertical line (or absense of light)appeared suddenly descended and disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-24
Where
Norfolk, VA, USA
Shape
circle
Duration
10 SECONDS
Geo
36.847, -76.285 · exact
Slug
circle-over-norfolk-va-1997-c8395d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 52 reports logged in Norfolk, VA.
  • This case is one of 23 Virginia reports filed in 1997.
  • Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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