UFOMYST
CaseCircle2014

Portsmouth, VA, USA

Yellowish circle light over water harbor fest hovering for a few mins then disappeared in one area and reappeared higher in the sky.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-06-07
Where
Portsmouth, VA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
36.835, -76.298 · exact
Slug
circle-over-portsmouth-va-2014-20ea2c
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

  • Portsmouth, VA has 38 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 184 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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