CaseCylinder2001
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
A silver cylinder hovering in the sky near Oceana Naval Air Station.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-30
- Where
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 36.853, -75.978 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-virginia-beach-va-2001-7cac1b
In context
- Virginia Beach, VA shows up 176 times across the archive.
- 63 reports came from Virginia in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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