CaseFireball1974
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
A report from Virginia Beach, VA in April 1974 described four large fireballs moving slowly and silently across the sky, lasting 15 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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (140 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-04-03
- Where
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 Minutes
- Geo
- 36.853, -75.978 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-virginia-beach-va-1974-5f5d0a
In context
- One of 176 documented reports from Virginia Beach, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 5 sightings in 1974.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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