CaseLight2019
Richmond, VA, USA
Medium light orb fell from the sky into the trees.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-12-08
- Where
- Richmond, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- Very quick
- Geo
- 37.554, -77.460 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-richmond-va-2019-f5b22a
Wave
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
- Richmond, VA has 125 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 194 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
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.