UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Roanoke, VA, USA

Round bright light in daylight high in sky disappears with a smoke jet like trail very fast round bright object never reappeared

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-07-16
Where
Roanoke, VA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
37.271, -79.941 · exact
Slug
circle-over-roanoke-va-2017-a16e2d
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

  • Roanoke, VA has 59 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 104 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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