UFOMYST
CaseFireball2015

Chatham, VA, USA

3 low-flying orange glowing objects over Highway 29 in Chatham, VA

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-05-24
Where
Chatham, VA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
36.826, -79.398 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-chatham-va-2015-ea9ae1
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

  • One of 6 documented reports from Chatham, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 151 sightings in 2015.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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