Portsmouth, VA, USA
It was a whitish blue circle of light was slow kind of hovering then disappeared out of nowhere
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-11-17
- Where
- Portsmouth, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- Few seconds
- Geo
- 36.835, -76.298 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portsmouth-va-2015-9f9f95
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
- One of 38 documented reports from Portsmouth, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 151 sightings in 2015.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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