Chester, VA, USA
Hi Peter, One sighting tonight, March 24th, of a luminous bright gold colored saucer shaped object for about two to three seconds thoug
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-24
- Where
- Chester, VA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 37.357, -77.442 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-chester-va-2016-f227e6
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
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Chester, VA.
- This case is one of 120 Virginia reports filed in 2016.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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