Roanoke, VA, USA
3 diagonal bright lights, seemed very close. moving slowly to the right, then down, then backtracked?!?!
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-23
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-roanoke-va-2013-393923
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
- This is one of 59 reports logged in Roanoke, VA.
- This case is one of 205 Virginia reports filed in 2013.
- Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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