Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Orange lights seen moving very fast across the sky above the clouds from east to west.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-03
- Where
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 36.853, -75.978 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-virginia-beach-va-2004-3fad46
Part of a wave
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 176 reports logged in Virginia Beach, VA.
- This case is one of 55 Virginia reports filed in 2004.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
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.