UFOMYST
CaseLight2013

Front Royal, VA, USA

I must say I would have thought it was a "shooting star"; if it was not for the speed at which it traveled.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-04-12
Where
Front Royal, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 secs
Geo
38.918, -78.194 · exact
Slug
light-over-front-royal-va-2013-4860f2
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 18 documented reports from Front Royal, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 205 sightings in 2013.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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