CaseDisk1976
Smith Mountain Lake (near Gretna and Penhook), VA, USA
THE COMPLETE SAUCER STORY: WHAT WE SAW AND HOW WE SAW IT TWICE! It was the middle of the week. Andy knew what he was
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-10-06
- Where
- Smith Mountain Lake (near Gretna and Penhook), VA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- disk-over-smith-mountain-lake-near-gretna-and-penhook-va-1976-9b4f86
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Smith Mountain Lake (near Gretna and Penhook), VA.
- This case is one of 7 Virginia reports filed in 1976.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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.