Portsmouth, VA, USA
A witness in Portsmouth, Virginia reported a red, flickering formation of objects moving extremely fast in a V shape, observed for about three minutes in July 1945.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (164 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1945-07-10
- Where
- Portsmouth, VA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 36.835, -76.298 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-portsmouth-va-1945-804101
Part of a wave
The Foo Fighters
European and Pacific theaters of WWII
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In context
- Portsmouth, VA has 38 sightings on file here.
- 1945 brought 2 reports from Virginia.
- The 1940s skewed 3.9% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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