CaseCircle1998
Tappahannock, VA, USA
Flying SW to E in East Sky, about Mach 15-20, est. alt. 5000' Angle of sun revealed intobe lt.grey w/black bottom. Shapedlike pietin
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-02-21
- Where
- Tappahannock, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3-4sec.
- Geo
- 37.925, -76.859 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-tappahannock-va-1998-ff1cad
In context
- Tappahannock, VA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 31 reports from Virginia.
- The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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