Virginia Beach, VA, USA
A report from Virginia Beach, VA in October 1973 described a disk-shaped object followed on bicycles by a group of friends, with a second sighting reported later alone, lasting 10-30 minutes.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (191 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-10-01
- Where
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10-30 minutes
- Geo
- 36.853, -75.978 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-virginia-beach-va-1973-f27c6b
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- Virginia Beach, VA shows up 176 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Virginia in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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