UFOMYST
CaseOther2013

Virginia Beach, VA, USA

Metalic object bigger than empire state building appeared to rise up in blue aura of light.

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 (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-09-23
Where
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
36.853, -75.978 · exact
Slug
other-over-virginia-beach-va-2013-1f4e19
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Virginia Beach, VA logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2013.

In context

  • One of 176 documented reports from Virginia Beach, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 205 sightings in 2013.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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