UFOMYST
CaseDisk1997

Hopewell, VA, USA

I've seen a Saucer and it moved w/ light speed

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-20
Where
Hopewell, VA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 MIN
Geo
37.304, -77.287 · exact
Slug
disk-over-hopewell-va-1997-55b80f
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Hopewell, VA shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 23 reports came from Virginia in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 7.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.