CaseFormation2001
Roanoke, VA, USA
Unusual cloud-like formations with precise activity from at least three moving lights
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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-31
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 8 to 10 minutes
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-roanoke-va-2001-231dda
In context
- Roanoke, VA has 59 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 63 reports from Virginia.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.