Windsor, VA, USA
Exceptionally big and bright star/planet-like light briefly appears in SE sky, then vanishes, as though getting shut off.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-07-31
- Where
- Windsor, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Only observed for a few m
- Geo
- 36.808, -76.744 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-windsor-va-2021-a65402
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
- One of 7 documented reports from Windsor, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 59 sightings in 2021.
- Circle sightings ran at 11.9% during the 2020s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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