UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2010

Richmond, VA, USA

Flying craft climbing vertically until it passed the moon in the sky upon which it 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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2010-12-10
Where
Richmond, VA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
Three minutes
Geo
37.554, -77.460 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-richmond-va-2010-7838d3
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Richmond, VA in December 2010 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Richmond, VA has 125 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 78 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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