UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Martinsville, VA, USA

Yellow/Orange lighted object moving from NE to SW. Very bright toy top shape with no sound. About the size of a penny held at arm reach

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-01
Where
Martinsville, VA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 mins
Geo
36.692, -79.873 · exact
Slug
other-over-martinsville-va-1997-e70af7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Martinsville, VA shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 23 reports came from Virginia in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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