CaseDisk2013
Independence, VA, USA
Disk shaped object tracking airplane.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-17
- Where
- Independence, VA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 36.622, -81.153 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-independence-va-2013-8a8526
Wave
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
- Independence, VA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 205 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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