CaseLight1962
Hopewell, VA, USA
Witnesses in Hopewell, Virginia described a fast-moving, sunlit object at high altitude making a sharp 90-degree turn before disappearing, in a sighting lasting about five minutes, September 1962.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (196 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1962-09-01
- Where
- Hopewell, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5
- Geo
- 37.304, -77.287 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-hopewell-va-1962-edc7a7
In context
- One of 13 documented reports from Hopewell, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 2 sightings in 1962.
- Light sightings ran at 11.3% during the 1960s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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