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CaseDisk2008

Gainesville, VA, USA

I wanted to report an interesting sighting that occurred at 13:00 hours(1:00pm) on December 14 2008 in the towns of Gainesville/Haymark

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.

  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-14
Where
Gainesville, VA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
38.796, -77.614 · exact
Slug
disk-over-gainesville-va-2008-e98707
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…

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In context

  • Gainesville, VA has 14 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 100 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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