CaseFormation2016

North Chesterfield, VA, USA

Odd Lights over Bon Air, VA.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-12-14
Where
North Chesterfield, VA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
37.380, -77.590 · exact
Slug
formation-over-north-chesterfield-va-2016-914f30
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…

In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in North Chesterfield, VA.
  • This case is one of 120 Virginia reports filed in 2016.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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